Centre for Health Informatics
Advancing Health Informatics Research and Training for Precision Health.
The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) is the newest University of Calgary research and innovation centre within the Cumming School of Medicine.
The Centre opened its doors in 2018 to advance and innovate health informatics for Precision Health through timely data access, data analytics such as visualization, linkage and coding, and leading research using secondary data for research trials, and clinical decision support. In Alberta's unique healthcare environment with a single Electronic Medical Records system, CHI brings together data assets to foster collaboration among investigators, support grant development, recruit faculty and students, develop cutting-edge analytics, and build capacity in data science and machine-learning.
The pandemic has shown the power that data holds, and thrust upon us was the need to find better ways to share it.
Dr. Tyler Williamson, PhD
Acting Director, Center for Health Informatics

Announcing Dr. Tyler Williamson as CHI's Acting Director
Director, Dr. Hude Quan, is stepping down due to personal reasons and our Associate Director, Dr. Tyler Williamson, will be stepping in as Acting Director of CHI. We thank Hude for his instrumental work in creating CHI and growing the Centre to what it is today; we look forward to our continued work with Dr. Quan’s research program as he stays on as Faculty Member at CHI. Dr. Williamson made many impacts as Associate Director specifically working on fund development, the Health Data Science and Biostatistics Program, team development, and everything to do with the Covid-19 Pandemic advising and CHI Covid Tracker. We are so pleased to introduce Tyler as our Acting Director and are looking forward to the great work he will do in the future!
Upcoming Events
April 14, 2022
CHI Virtual Speaker Series
TBA
April 21, 2022
CHI Virtual Speaker Series
TBA