Welcome
Health informatics is: the knowledge, skills and tools which enable information to be collected, managed, used and shared to support the delivery of healthcare and to promote health. (taken from the National Health Service, UK).
Faculty from Dalhousie University share their definitions of Health Informatics in the video above.
Health Informatics will change the face of health care by its influence on clinical care, health services administration research, and public and provider education. -- David Zitner, MA, MD, FCFP, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University (as seen in the video above)
Health informatics training is a passport to an incredibly exciting professional journey, where information is the
electricity of widely dispersed, yet integrated central nervous systems within which the public, providers, administrators
and policy makers see information transform to knowledge, with profound influences on informed debate, understanding, power,
and health outcomes. -- Thomas Noseworthy, MSc, MPH, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCCP, FCCM, CHE, Professor & Director, Centre for Health and Policy Studies, University of Calgary (below)
What's New in Health Informatics at Dalhousie University
Please see the Events Page for current activities.
Sahar Alsharif, one of our Master of Health Informatics students, has won third prize in the AHIC Poster Contest. Congratulations, Sahar!
Emerging Professionals: Where We've Been and Where We're Going: Brittany Barnett, MHI graduate
Health Informatics faculty and staff are pleased to wish all the best to our first Master of Health Informatics Academic Achievement Award winners. These graduate of the program will receive their awards at the Health Informatics Intensive on September 7, 2011.
- Gold Award: Patryk Simon (on the left)
- Silver Award: Mohammed Al-Bakri (on the right)
- Silver Award: Kunal Mohindra (on the bottom)
Two Top 10 Papers at the Applied Health Informatics Conference (AHIC), 2010
Cross-Canada EMR Case Studies: Analysis of Physicians' Perspectives on Benefits and Barriers authored by Grace Paterson, Nicola Shaw, Andrew M. Grant, Elisabeth Delisle, Kevin Leonard, Shelby Mitchell Corley, Maryan McCarrey, Bill Pascal and Nancy Kraetschmer has been chosen as one of the Top 10 papers of AHIC 2010 and has been published in the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) vol. 6 no. 4: AHIC 2010 Special Edition.
"What are Canadian Medical Students Learning about Health Informatics?" authored by Katrina F. Hurley, Brett Taylor, Paul Postuma and Grace Paterson has been chosen as one of the Top 10 papers of AHIC 2010 and has been published in the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) vol.6 no. 4: AHIC 2010 Special Edition.
Our congratulations to both Grace and Katrina!
Sam Stewart (IDPhD) wins Second Prize at the student paper competition at MEDINFO 2010
Our congratulations to Sam Stewart, IDPhD (Health Informatics) student supervised by Raza Abidi and Allen Finley, who won the Second Prize at the student paper competition at MEDINFO 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa 12-15 Sept 2010. MEDINFO is the top international health informatics conference. Sam competed against students from around the world. He came a close second with his paper "Pediatric Pain Management Knowledge Linkages: Mapping Experiential Knowledge to Explicit Knowledge".
MHI Students are Winners in the Code Blue Challenge
Our congratulations go to Deepak Swain, Ali Zaidi and Shirin Sharif, members of the two teams tied for first place in the Code Blue Challenge that took place at Dalhousie University on January 21, 2010.
The interdisciplinary challenge was sponsored by DalHSSA. The Challenge: members of interdisciplinary teams from Medicine (MHI falls here!), Health Professions and Dentistry buzzed in their answers to question related to health and were judged by a panel of professors. The audience at the McCain Building was also invited to submit answers. This was billled as a fun-filled night of competition and teamwork, a head-to-head battle of smarts. Members of the winning team were awarded a cash prize.