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The Institute for Healthcare Information Technology (IHIT) Leads Collaboration Between Healthcare IT Vendors & Educators
http://news.morningstar.com/all/business-wire/BWIPREM20150211005667/the-institute-for-healthcare-information-technology-ihit-leads-collaboration-between-healthcare-it-vendors-educators.aspx
In support of Georgia’s growing Healthcare IT industry, the Institute for Healthcare Information Technology (IHIT) recently met with Georgia Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, to bring Healthcare IT vendors and Educators together with a goal of aligning job demand and educational supply. In 2014, IHIT surveyed Healthcare IT Vendors and Hospitals across Georgia, to gauge the status of their plans to expand and hire from within the state, as well as their perceptions of how well-equipped Georgia’s educational institutions are to provide qualified Healthcare IT candidates. …Upon completion of the survey, IHIT began discussion on the workforce issues facing healthcare IT vendors, and how public and private Academic Institutions are preparing to address those issues. This collaboration included the Technical College System of Georgia, the University System of Georgia and Emory Continuing Education, as well as Healthcare IT companies such as: SoloHealth, PointClear Solutions, Navicure, HealthPort, McKesson, AthenaHealth, Sharecare and Jackson Healthcare. Executives representing the Healthcare IT vendors indicated that in addition to technical skills and relevant experience, softer skills such as interpersonal skills and “character qualities” were crucial to their success.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
Regents give OK to Laney-Walker project
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2015-02-12/regents-give-ok-laney-walker-project
Staff
ATLANTA – The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents gave the go-ahead Wednesday for its participation in planned Laney-Walker Boulevard streetscape improvements. The cost of the $1.8 million project is being split, with Georgia Regents University paying $881,000, the city of Augusta $220,000 and the Georgia Department of Transportation $700,000, according to the regents.
www.redandblack.com
BOR approves Washington facility name, talks turbines
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/bor-approves-washington-facility-name-talks-turbines/article_2b6e0298-b24c-11e4-a32e-33462cefcd12.html
Katelyn Umholtz
The University of Georgia had many goals accomplished today of the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents meeting in Atlanta. One of those was the approval of the Washington, D.C., facility name, which was named after its $5 million grant donor, Delta Air Lines Foundation. “Today, the University of Georgia received a commitment for a $5 million grant from the Delta Air Lines Foundation to support UGA in Washington,” said Cynthia Hoke, director of news services for the Public Affairs Division. “The Board of Regents formally approved the naming of the facility to Delta Hall.”
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Ribbon-cutting, tours Friday at new UGA veterinary hospital
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2015-02-11/ribbon-cutting-tours-friday-new-uga-veterinary-hospital
By LEE SHEARER
The public can get a look at the University of Georgia’s new veterinary medicine campus at a ribbon-cutting ceremony 2 p.m. Friday that will feature remarks by Gov. Nathan Deal, University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby and others.
www.times-herald.com
UWG Newnan Campus To Be Completed Soon
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20150212-UWG-Newnan-campus-will-be-completed-soon
by CELIA SHORTT
The new University of West Georgia campus in Newnan remains on track and is set to be completed in March. “It’s becoming more and more real every day,” said Hasco W. Craver IV, business development director for Newnan. Craver made the announcement at Newnan’s Downtown Development Authority’s meeting on Wednesday. Craver said the punch list for the project is now being completed, the building systems are being tested, and UWG is bringing in its IT department to work on the IT systems.
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Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth Expands Telemedicine to First College Campus in Georgia
http://www.klkntv.com/story/28080861/georgia-partnership-for-telehealth-expands-telemedicine-to-first-college-campus-in-georgia
Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth (GPT), a charitable nonprofit promoting the establishment of telemedicine programs in communities throughout Georgia, announces its newest partner, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC), a State College of the University System of Georgia located in Tifton. ABAC will be the first college campus in Georgia to house a telemedicine clinic in addition to their existing campus health clinics and further strengthens GPT’s telemedicine network within the state. Tift Regional Hospital is also very invested in the program as the ABAC’s primary partner. Tift Regional and ABAC recognized the importance of telemedicine for ABAC’s students as well as ABAC’s School of Nursing & Health Sciences nursing program curriculum.
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Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/meet-the-new-self-appointed-mooc-accreditors-google-and-instagram/55807
by Jeffrey R. young
A big question for MOOCs, the free online courses that hundreds of colleges now offer, is whether employers will take them seriously as credentials. But some of the biggest MOOC producers may have figured out how to jump-start employer buy-in: Get big-name companies to help design them. On Wednesday, Coursera, one of the largest MOOC platforms, announced that it had teamed up with more than half a dozen companies that will help create capstone projects for its course series. The companies include the tech giant Google as well as Instagram and Shazam—all names likely to entice students looking to get a start in Silicon Valley.
www,insidehighered.com
Finding the Right Formula
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/12/report-seeks-add-specificity-debate-over-states-performance-based-funding-models
By Paul Fain
Performance-based funding in higher education is spreading, with 35 states either developing or using formulas that link support for public colleges to student completion rates, degree production numbers or other metrics. The resulting debate over whether performance funding works is heating up, too. But a new report from HCM Strategists makes the case that there is great variation among the policies in those 35 states. It seeks to classify four types of formulas to help inform policy makers, researchers and higher education officials.
www,insidehighered.com
New Energy for 2-Year Colleges
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/12/obama-community-college-proposal-shift-conversation-capitol-hill-college-leaders-say
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — Community college leaders arrived here this week for their annual legislative at a time when the political chattering about their institutions appears to be at a fever pitch. Public two-year colleges, which are scattered across nearly every Congressional district, have long enjoyed bipartisan support, if not necessarily funding,in Washington. But President Obama’s free community college proposal has pushed the discourse around public two-year colleges in a new direction, leaders say. Whether that spotlight and attention will translate into actual victories for the institutions in Congress, though, is an open question.