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.

Centre for Health Informatics (CHI)

http://www.chi.unsw.edu.au/

CHI is Australia’s largest research group in this emerging discipline. It conducts fundamental and applied research to map the complex nature of today's health systems , and designs scientifically rigorous and system wide interventions that will sustain tomorrow’s health system.

CHI’s work is internationally recognised for its groundbreaking contributions in the development of intelligent systems to support evidence-based healthcare; in developing robust evaluation methodologies for IT in complex settings; and in understanding how communication in complex health organisations shapes the safety and quality of health care delivery. CHI researchers are also developing novel computational methods to automate diagnosis of 3-D medical images, mine complex gene microarray and medical record data, and whole of health system simulation methods to model the impact of health policy changes.

CHI is affiliated with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and works closely with the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Centre for Clinical Governance. It partners on research projects with many organisations including the NSW Department of Health, the National Institute of Clinical Studies, and the Federal Department of Health and Ageing.