Carolina Health Informatics

Come check out our CHIP table at the UNC Greensboro career fair! Telling students about our awesome program and amazing CHIP students! 🩵☺️

Come join us at the UNC career fair at rams head rec complex! Having fun talking about the CHIP program and our wonderful students☺️🩵🐏

What an awesome night! So proud of our CHIP graduates! Congratulations!🎉 🎓We wish you all the best as you pursue your dreams 🥹❤️👏

CHIP was excited to host Rachini Moosavi, Chief Analytics officer for today for a talk on leveraging data and analytics to advance healthcare delivery. What an amazing 🤩 talk on what is doing in the data analytics space and how they are supporting their team with a focus on culture and collaboration!

Congratulations to CHIP Doctoral Student, Amy Cole, who won the Anne Stiggelbout Award for outstanding presentation in patient and stakeholder preferences and engagement at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 🎉👏 Amy’s work focuses on the communication between clinical providers and their patients and understanding how tailoring patient reported health information can impact patient-centered care. She is engaging patients, families, and clinicians in her research in an intentional and meaningful way. Amy is passionate about patient-centered care that results in better patient-centered outcomes. Amazing work that our students are doing and so proud of Amy! Congratulations!❤️

Today, students in our systems analysis course took a quick break for some photos! Some were celebrating Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights. Others were excited for Halloween🎃. Have a safe and fun time to all this evening! 🎉🩵

CHIP doctoral student, Max Natthawut recently attended the annual healthcare data analytics association Conference. We are inspired by his takeaways and insight from the experience below! He volunteered as the event photographer, which resulted in some fantastic images. A huge thanks to Max for sharing his experience and his photography talent!

🏆 The 4-day conference kicked off with an executive summit. Data leaders from across the US shared insights on communicating the value of data teams to hospitals, data governance, and fostering a data & analytics culture. Key takeaways: If you're not deliberate about your culture, it will happen to you - potentially resulting in subpar data governance and underdelivered value. Data governance is often misunderstood; focus on the problems it solves, like ensuring good training data for AI models.

📊 The conference showcased how leading healthcare organizations are harnessing the power of data and modern analytics tools to drive clinical, operational and financial improvements. Networking events and roundtable discussions provided valuable opportunities for analytics leaders to share challenges and best practices around implementing and optimizing these technologies.

😍 Overall, it was an incredible experience for me to witness the analytics in action from various viewpoints and through different lenses. (Pun intended; as I shot thousands of photos there.) Everyone was incredibly friendly and welcoming, and would help expand your network in the job market. I recommend that you should join their next conference being held by Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee!

So proud of CHIP Doctoral student, John Geracitano! He recently passed his comp exam, successfully defending his dissertation research proposal. His research will be focused on developing a geospatial web tool operationalizing the newly developed Digital Health Index. This tool will serve as a national resource for patients, providers, and researchers to gain insight into the digital health landscape. Assessed factors include elements from the social, geographic, and digital domains, such as high-speed internet availability and driving distances to Urgent Care and Emergency Departments.

John has quickly progressed through this doctoral coursework to reach this significant milestone! We are excited for the next steps in his academic journey!

Join CHIP to hear from Senior Trustworthy AI Specialist, Kirsti Boyd from SAS. Learn more about her role, career journey and passion for responsible innovation. Looking forward to her talk and hearing more about her unique role with SAS.

CHIP is excited to announce our official partnership with the UNC School of Data Science and Society! Dean Stan Ahalt of SDSS and Director David Gotz of CHIP are excited for the collaboration. Our units will work together to offer unique learning opportunities, combine faculty expertise, and support our efforts to grow the next generation of data scientists!