Welcome
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
Dr. Zitner in the Faculty of Medicine's Computer Lab
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
What's New in Health Informatics at Dalhousie University
Please see the Events Page for current activities.
MHI Students are Winners in the Code Blue Challenge
Our congratulations go to Deepak Swain, Ali Zaidi and Shirin Sharif who were members of the two teams tied for first place in the Code Blue Challenge that took place 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 Dnetistry buzzed in their answers to question related to health and were judged by a panel of professor. The audience at the McCain Building was also invited to submit answers. This will billled as a fun-filled night of competition and teamwork, a head-tohead battle of smarts. Members of the winning team were awarded a cash prize.
Master of Health Informatics well represented at ITCH'09. Below (left to right) are Robin Carriere (MHI graduate), Dr. Grace Paterson (MHI professor), Wilfred Bonney (MHI graduate) and Dr. Michael Shepherd (former MHI professor and current Dean of Computer Science at Dalhousie University).
On November 17, 2008, Gavin Walters defended his Master's thesis "Deriving a Hepatitis C Core Data Set to Better Address Information Requests of Decision Makers Dealing With The Hepatitis C Patient Population". Pictured below are Walter and Dr. Grace Paterson, his thesis supervisor, at his defense. Click here for the abstract.
Three of our 2008 summer internship students have made the news! Ene (Ann) Euloth, Tanay Sharma and Badal Dhar did their internships at St. Francis Xavier University and presented their work and recommendations on August 1, 2008. Read the news item from the Casket. Pictured below: Tanay Sharma, Dr. Wendy MacCaull, Dr. Grace Paterson, Badal Dhar, Professor Heather Jewers, Ene (Ann) Euloth
2008 Interns with Supervisors
Congratulations to Our Award-Winning Students and Faculty!
- Tracey Fisher
- The Steven Huesing Scholarship from COACH (Canada's Health Informatics Association) - 2008
COACH President Linda Miller, Tracey Fisher, Steven Huesing
- Selena Davis
- Kootenay Association for Science and Technology (KAST) Spirit of Innovation Award - May, 30, 2008
- Why she received the KAST Award
- Samina Abidi
- The Steven Huesing Scholarship from COACH (Canada's Health Informatics Association) - 2007
- Rekha Gaikwad
- Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship - 2007
- Katrina Hurley
- The Steven Huesing Scholarship from COACH (Canada's Health Informatics Association) - 2006
- The COACH article
- Selena Davis and Dr. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
- The best paper award at the 11th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (iSHIMR) - 2006
- Zhixin Chen, Drs. Michael Shepherd, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, and Allen Finley
- The best paper award in the 'Information Technology in Healthcare' track at the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39) - 2006
- Nariman Amiri
- The Education Division Student Research Prize at the International Association of Dental Research Annual Meeting - 2005
Selena with her award
