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There are four things you should know about what's new in the Department of Information Systems.

2021-11-18

Here are four things you should know about what's new in the Department of Information Systems:

1. Research funded by the National Institutes of Health will explore YouTube as a digital therapy tool.
2. SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, is offering full scholarships to select students majoring in computer information systems or business data analytics, and those participating in the Digital Workforce Apprenticeship Program.
3. See the numbers behind students’ success, including their employment after graduation and our PhD placement rates.
4. And last but not least, learn the recent topics and outlets informed by W. P. Carey information systems experts.

NIH-funded research explores YouTube as digital therapy tool

With the help of a $262,725 grant from the National Institutes of Health, Assistant Professor of Information Systems Xiao Liu will investigate how social media can be a channel to inform and communicate health care information to patients and facilitate patient-centric health promotion and literacy improvement.

The three-year grant is among $984,784 awarded in 2021 to three universities as part of the agency's Biomedical Informatics and Data Science program.

"YouTube hosts over 100 million healthcare-related videos on a variety of medical conditions, which can be utilized to improve patients’ adherence to clinical guidelines and self-care required for chronic disease management." says Liu, who is the co-principal investigator and author of the research titled, "Leveraging YouTube Video Analytics for Patient Education: A Digital Therapy Tool for Clinicians to Retrieve and Recommend Understandable Videos on Chronic Disease Management."

In this project, Liu and the other researchers propose an augmented intelligence-based approach that effectively combines human input from domain experts and consumers with machine-learning and natural language processing methods to winnow down and retrieve relevant, understandable, and contextualized video materials that clinicians can recommend to patients.

SVB scholarship sets students up for success

Select students majoring in computer information systems or business data analytics, and those participating in the Digital Workforce Apprenticeship Partnership are eligible for full scholarships under a program by SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank.

ASU is one of four universities chosen by the financial giant to share in $5 million designated for the University Scholarship Program scholarships that cover full tuition and room and board. ASU received $1 million, with $750,000 going to the Silicon Valley Bank – W. P. Carey Scholars Fund. Each scholarship also includes a paid summer internship, including housing costs at one of SVB’s U.S. locations.

IS success is student success

One of the primary ways we measure our success is by our students’ success — their employment after graduation, our PhD placement rates, and the vital lessons our students learn at W. P. Carey and then take to their successful careers.

Employment by the numbers

According to the 2019 Information Systems Job Index, W. P. Carey master’s degree students make more than the average salaries in their fields. Here’s more:

From 2016–2021:

• 1,576 bachelor’s degree graduates
• 1,217 undergraduate certificates
• 1,631 master’s degrees

Master of Science in Business Analytics, Class of 2020
Within six months of graduation, 92% of MS-BA graduates were employed. Hiring companies include Amazon, Avnet, Dell, FlexiVan, and Goldman Sachs.

Master of Science in Information Systems Management, Class of 2020
Within six months of graduation, 72% of MS-ISM graduates were employed. Hiring companies include Banner Health, Intel Corp. KPMG LLP, MUFG Union Bank, and ON Semiconductor.

IS faculty answer when the media calls

From mainstream press to respected industry publications, media turn to the W. P. Carey School and the Department of Information Systems to make sense of today’s news. This partial list includes recent topics and outlets informed by information systems experts:

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp experience worldwide outage
Victor Benjamin
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Arizona PBS

Public-private partnerships to open up the talent pipeline in Arizona
Raghu Santanam
Professor of Information Systems
WorkingNation

Amazon Web Services, Arizona State to offer for-credit cloud education to 10K high schoolers ASU
Higher Ed Dive

Experts: Semiconductor company move will spark north Phoenix growth
Raghu Santanam
Daily Independent

ASU, Drive48, and Pima County prepare to fill thousands of jobs in statewide ‘manufacturing boom’
Raghu Santanam
The Phoenix Business Journal

Divisive, demoralizing bots are winning, so big tech needs to think bigger
Victor Benjamin
The Boston Globe

ASU preps $8M grant for skilled workforce
Raghu Santanam
Daily Independent

How much are hospital, physician star ratings worth to patients?
Raghu Santanam
PatientEngagementHIT

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