About CHI

The Centre of Health Informatics (CHI) is building an international reputation as a research leader in the application of information technology to healthcare. Its principal aim is to map the complex organisational systems that shape today’s health system and to design rigorous, system-wide interventions that provide a sustainable platform for future health systems, locally and internationally.

The Centre’s main activities are the development of intelligent systems to support evidence-based healthcare, the development and application of evaluation tools to assess the impacts of information technology in healthcare, and fostering an awareness of how management and communication systems shape the safety and quality of healthcare delivery.

The Centre conceives that the potential use of information and communication technology in healthcare settings will occur incrementally in some areas and radically in others. It also acknowledges that while some changes in healthcare are highly predictable, others are clouded by an uncertain, and potentially chaotic future.

A facility of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine, the Centre for Health Informatics is a research partner to major healthcare providers, research institutions and governments, including the New South Wales Department of Health, the National Institute of Clinical Studies and The Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

CHI makes contributions to:

Science

Break-through discoveries in information, communication, cognitive and organisational science needed to support health service innovation and biomedical researchers.

Policy

Providing expert input and leadership into government, shaping e-health policy priorities and goals.

Innovation

Invention of novel information technologies and methods that can transfer into industry and health services.

Education

Training future researchers through postgraduate research degrees, and educating clinicians, technologists and policy makers in health informatics through postgraduate programs and Winter Workshop.


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