Dorsey MSHI, Amanda

Dorsey MSHI, Amanda
Assistant Professor

Associate Scientist (C), Center Info Assurance Jt Forensic Research , College of Arts and Sciences 2014 -
Assistant Professor (P), Health Services Administration , School of Health Professions 2015 -

Overview

Amanda Dorsey, MSHI, FHIMSS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and teaches Health Information Technology (HIT) courses across three different programs. Prior to UAB, she worked in a variety of healthcare settings for more than 12 years prior to joining UAB in 2006. Amanda began her career at UAB Health System Information Services (HSIS) department and performed in a variety of roles including technical writer, business analyst, manager of strategic and regulatory planning and finally as the enterprise project manager for the health system’s HIPAA Project.

In 2001, she joined Phoenix Health Systems in Gaithersburg, Maryland as a Senior Consultant. While at Phoenix, she worked as a project manager on both long and short-term engagements including system selections and implementations, contract negotiations, risk assessment and disaster recovery planning, organizational strategic planning and HIPAA preparedness and training. Most recently, she worked at Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham as a member of the Physician Application Team as a project manager on an Emergency Department Electronic Health Record (EHR).

Amanda is the former Program Director of the UAB Master of Science in Health Informatics program where she transitioned the program to an online/cohort model format, and revised the existing generalist curriculum to a core/track model , where students can specialize in tracks of User Experience or Data Analytics. She also created a online, graduate certificate in Clinical Informatics for working clinicians interested in pursuing formal training in Informatics.

Amanda currently serves on the Alabama HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Committee, and also served as the President and Board Member of the same chapter. She is a Fellow in national HIMSS and a past member of the Board of Directors for UAB’s National Alumni Society.

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2016	Assessment-Based Curriculum Improvement. Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (Special issue on Health Informatics Education). 2016
2016	Assessment-based health informatics curriculum improvement. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 23:813-818. 2016
2015	Bridging the gap: A collaborative approach to health information management and informatics education. Applied Clinical Informatics. 6:211-223. 2015

Chapter

Year	Title	Altmetric
2020	In Informatics Education in Healthcare. Editors: Berner ES . Spring 2020 2020
2013	Applied Informatics for Health IT Managers 2013

Research Overview

How user-experience and design can improve EHR experiences for physicians.

Investigator On

Technology Enhancement for Psychiatric NPs Using Interprofessional Education awarded by Health Resources and Services Administration/DHHS 2012 - 2016

Teaching Overview

My teaching centers around courses in healthcare information technology at the undergraduate and graduate level. Courses taught include

Information Systems & Management Science in Health Services Administration
Clinical and Administrative Information Systems
Microcomputer Applications for Healthcare Professionals
Introduction to Healthcare Systems
Directed Data Analytics and User Experience Capstone Projects