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).
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.
Emerging Professionals: Where We've Been and Where We're Going: Brittany Barnetr, MHI graduate
Tenure-Stream Faculty Position in Medical Informatics available
The Division of Medical Education invites applications for a tenure-stream faculty position in Medical Informatics at the level of Assistant Professor. Medical Informatics in the Faculty of Medicine was established in 1996. It is a program within the Division of Medical Education Major responsibilities of the position include leadership in the Medical Informatics Program, program development in the Faculty of Medicine and in the Health Informatics Program at Dalhousie University.
For the position posting, click here
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 will be published in the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) 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 will be published in the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) 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 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
Steven Huesing, Semina Abidi with her award (in the centre) and Linda Miller, COACH President
- 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
