Regenstrief Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program

The Regenstrief Biomedical Informatics Fellowship Program, offers fellowships supported by the National Library of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs that provides hands-on training in the use of computer technology to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare. Interacting closely with faculty mentors, fellows participate in a two-year (with optional third year) comprehensive training program to prepare for roles in developing, implementing and studying clinical information systems.

This post-doctoral fellowship program supports physicians, other clinicians holding doctorates, and PhDs in relevant fields who have previous computer experience and desire to become part of a community of scholars and clinicians at the forefront of medical and technological innovations.  The primary intent of this fellowship is to train fellows for academic, state, or federal government careers in medical informatics research, although graduates are also sought after by health care provider organizations and the medical systems development industry.

The Regenstrief fellowship is an exceptional opportunity for those with strong programming skills and experience or interest in higher level languages (Java, C++ and others) who wish to have an immediate impact on patient care.

Participate in the development of real world clinical systems at the Regenstrief Institute, an innovator in medical informatics.

Indiana Health Information Technology Training Collaborative

The Indiana Health Information Technology Training Collaborative (I-HITTC) is a major resource for imporving local human capacity for health informatics, public health and research in Indiana.  It was built upon the existing collaboration between Indiana Unviersity Schools of Informatics and Nursing along with the Regenstrief Institute.  In combination with the Regenstrief Institute's world-renown laboratory for biomedical and public helath informatics, the School of Informatics is the first in the United States that houses four different programs in health informatics, bioinformatics, human-computer interaction and media sciences.

I-HITTC's primary goal is to address the workforce needs of qualified health IT workers over the next several years.  Given the anticipated growth in the use of EHRs, and the estimated shortfall of 51,000 qualified health IT workers, there is likely to become a significant barrier to comprehensive adoption and meaningful use of helath information technology.

Regional East African Center for Health Informatics

The Regional East African Center for Health Informatics (REACH) was created in 2009 and builds on a dozen years of informatics development and implementation in East Africa.  Leveraging the long-term collaboration between Indiana University and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, REACH is funded by Fogarty International Center and has three primary training foci: 1) post-doctoral informatics training to East Africans to enhance clinical and public health research to improve health care delivery; 2) short courses and practicum training to support the development, implementation, maintenance, evolution, and use of EHRs in low-income countries; and (3) leadership development in global eHealth.  An important product emanating from REACH is OpenMRS, the most widely implemented electronic health record in the developing world.  The product of collaboration between Regenstrief, Partners in Health, and the Medical Research Council of South Africa, OpenMRS is currently in use in more than 50 developing and developed countries.  In recognition of REACH's work, in 2009 the Regenstrief Institute became the World Health Organization's first -- and to-date only -- WHO Collaborating Center for the design, application, and research of medical information systems.