Faculty Profile

Alice Noblin, PhD, RHIA

Alice Noblin, PhD,  is the undergraduate Health Informatics and Information Management program director at the University of Central Florida. She is an instructor in the program as well as in the Masters in Health Care Informatics program. She received her MBA from Georgia State University and her PhD in Public Affairs from UCF. Dr. Noblin has work experience in both hospitals and physician offices.

Dr. Noblin is credentialed by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) and a Certified Coding Specialist (CCS).  She is certified as an ICD-10 Trainer by AHIMA as well. Dr. Noblin is active in the regional, state and national HIM organizations. She is also a panel reviewer for the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education. Dr. Noblin is a co-author in the textbook Learning to Code with CPT/HCPCS. She has several other peer-reviewed publications and has presented her research at academic and practitioner conferences. Her research interests include electronic health records, personal health records, and health information exchanges.

Richard E. Biehl, PhD

Richard Biehl, PhD, is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Health Management and Informatics. He also teaches in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.He received his doctoral degree in Applied Management and Decision Sciences from Walden University in 2008, and a master's degree in Educational Change and Technology Innovation from Walden University in 1999. He holds certifications from the American Society for Quality as a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Certified Software Quality Engineer. Dr. Biehl’s research interests include large-scale clinical and bioinformatics data warehousing, as well as the integration of systems engineering into healthcare. He serves on the Management Engineering and Process Improvement (ME-PI) Committee of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). 

Lawrence West, PhD

Dr. Larry West received a BA in Economics from the University of California at Davis, an MBA from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in Information Systems and Industrial Organization Economics from Texas A&M University. He has published multiple papers on the economics of information and information systems, geographic information systems as a decision support technology, and the international labor market for skilled professionals. His teaching interests are database management systems and the development of custom web and Windows-based applications. Following graduation from UC Davis, Dr. West served for ten years as a Regular Army Infantry Officer and Comptroller and eighteen years in the US Army Reserve, mostly in the Civil Affairs Corps. He is a veteran of the first deployment of US forces to Iraq where he earned the Bronze Star and the Iraq Campaign Medal with two campaign stars. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger schools. Dr. West enjoys poker and plays it badly.
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