Open House
September 14th, 2023 (3pm-5pm)
You're Invited!
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to our second open house event located at the Centre of Health Informatics on Thursday September 14th, 2023 from 3-5pm.
We believe in building relationships in our community, as such, we will be hosting our second open house to showcase the collaborative and innovative work we have achieved since our inauguration in 2019.
Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP using our Evenbrite Link.
Collaborative Partnerships
In order to accommodate the complexity and urgency of the challenges presented in the health care system today, partnership and collaboration among government, health services researchers and academic health science networks is vital. We believe that partnership is essential to the implementation of flexible and sustainable healthcare solutions.
Similar to how CHI houses AHS staff to facilitate direct data access, the opportunity is available for CSM Institutes and researchers to hire analysts who work within AHS and place them in the Centre. This allows for researchers to have their analyst embedded in CHI with direct data access and part of the collaborative environment of CHI. Get to know our collaborative partnerships which will be featured during our Open House!
CHI houses the UC team of the Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research Unit (AbSPORU) Data and Research Services Team. SPOR analysts work in CHI as Alberta Health Services staff with direct data-access. The team manages data extraction for researchers and works closely with the CHI Analytic Services team to support UC researchers.
DIH Lab is committed to addressing health challenges by advancing practice and research at the intersection of data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and health sciences. They are a group of health data science researchers in the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Their overarching interest is to apply data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, software engineering, visualization, and mobile technology to challenging health problems, with a particular focus on unconventional digital health data sources.
The Centre for Health Informatics and the University of Calgary are proud members of the Alberta Real World Evidence Consortium (RWEC) that aims to provide research andanalytic services to industry partners. CHI added to its RWEC team in 2022 with Dr. TylerWilliamson as Co-Director of the Consortium, 1 Biostatistician and 1 Senior Biostatistician.RWEC had 14 projects active in 2022, CHI has been involved with 9 of those projects and10 projects have had University of Calgary involvement.
Strategies for Precision Health for Breast Cancer (SPHERE) is a multidisciplinary team of health service researchers, dedicated to improving treatment and outcomes for breast cancer patients across Alberta. Reducing the bUrden of bReast cancer in Young women (RUBY) is a collaboration of 32 centers and 44 researchers across Canada, led by the University of Calgary and Women’sCollege Hospital. Through RUBY, they are building a dataset of patient reported outcomes and clinical data for young women with breast cancer, which will be combined with genetic testing data to create one of the largest and comprehensive databases existing on this population.
SeroTracker is a global platform for SARS-CoV-2 sero surveys data that is operationally supported by CHI and is housed within the Centre. To date, the group has synthesized over 4,000 studies with over 32 million. participants from 140 countries.
In 2022, the SeroTracker Team published 8 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, including an article on protective effectiveness of hybrid immunity against Omicron in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, a global review of seroprevalence over time and case under-ascertainment in PLoS Medicine. SeroTracker has had its work featured in several key knowledge distribution channels, including advising decisions for the the WHO Strategic Advisory Group ofExperts on Immunization (SAGE). The platform was cited as a key success in WHO's Annual Research and Development Report. SeroTracker was also awarded an extension to its existing WHO grant and received an additional funding extension from the Public HealthAgency of Canada for 2022-2023.