The Centre for Health Informatics

Post-genome the next healthcare revolution is in information and systems, or informatics. Building a sustainable health system for the 21st Century will require the reinvention of much of the present day system, and require the intelligent use of information and communication technologies to deliver high quality, safe, efficient and affordable health care.

The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) is Australia's largest academic research group in this emerging discipline. The Centre's work is internationally recognized for its groundbreaking contributions in the development of intelligent search systems to support evidence-based healthcare, developing evaluation methodologies for IT, and in understanding how communication shapes the safety and quality of health care delivery. Centre researchers also are working on safety models and standards for IT in healthcare, mining complex gene microarray, medical literature and medical record data, building health system simulation methods to model the impact of health policy changes, and developing novel computational methods to automate diagnosis of 3-D medical images.