CIHI News Articles

The University of Texas at Arlington is a gold-level sponsor for the newly opened Biolabs at Pegasus Park, a state-of-the-art co-working facility for biotech startups.

A new edition of Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective is now on pre-order and boasts two University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation (CONHI) faculty as editors. Marion Ball, the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering as well as presidential distinguished professor in CONHI and Gabriela Wilson, professor of kinesiology, are both co-editors of the 5th edition of this classic textbook.

A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas at Arlington received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) to help Tarrant County residents better understand COVID-19 health information.

University of Texas at Arlington computer scientist Jacob Luber has earned a five-year, $2 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to create a database that contains every publicly available cancer dataset from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

In alignment with its goals of global engagement, The University of Texas at Arlington has entered into a cooperative agreement with Danubius University Galati (DU), an international research university located in Romania.

During the 2021 Annual American Medical Informatics Association Symposium (AMIA), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) recognized Dr. Marion J. Ball, the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, as a distinguished fellow.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) selected a graduate researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington for its competitive Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Scholars Informatics Internship.

A new certificate program at The University of Texas at Arlington aims to prepare undergraduate students to better understand the fields of telehealth and health informatics.

Responding to the demands of an increasingly older population for options to accommodate aging in place, The University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) is leading a cross-disciplinary research project to design and build micro-housing that can be embedded with technology that allows older people to live safely and independently at home.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working alongside The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and local and state public health agencies to improve public health information technology and COVID-19 data gathering and to increase representation among underrepresented groups in the public health IT workforce.