The Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) recently celebrated a significant milestone as Terika McCall became the first student to graduate with her Doctor of Philosophy in Health Informatics. CHIP launched its PhD program in the fall of 2016. Just one … Continued
Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) is actively seeking applicants for the NLM T-15 Fellowship: National Library of Medicine Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Training Grant Fellowship Program. CHIP's training fellowship focuses on Healthcare Informatics and Public Health Informatics with each … Continued
Tool Created to Help Americans Take 4 Steps to Avoid Becoming Patients Chapel Hill, NC April 03, 2020 – A free online mapping tool is now available to help Americans see the reality of COVID-19 in their communities and state. The mapping … Continued
UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) faculty members David Gotz and Yue “Ray” Wang have been awarded over $200,000 in grant funding to develop a system that will allow users to bring unstructured contextual information into structured data … Continued
CHIP PhD Candidate, Terika McCall with advisor Dr. Saif Khairat, recently published paper in JMIR Mental Health- The Acceptability of Text Messaging to Help African American Women Manage Anxiety and Depression: Cross-Sectional Survey Study. Paper Abstract Background: The rates of mental … Continued
CHIP PhD student Ashley Griffin, MSPH was recently awarded a NC TraCS Pilot Grant on her research topic: A Conversational Agent to Support Hypertension Medication Self-Management. Project Description: Self-management of hypertension-related behaviors, such as diet, exercise, and medications, is challenging … Continued
Alex Rich is a third year Health Informatics PhD student researching pharmaceutical manufacturer influence in American healthcare. His work in visual analysis and communication is heavily influenced by his previous career as a special operations pilot and crash investigator. His projects seek to bring … Continued
A new paper co-authored by Dr. Carlton Moore and Dr. G. Cameron Coleman: Using Safety Barrier Analysis to Facilitate Quality Improvement in Health Care: Improving Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis as a Proof of Concept, was recently published in the American Journal … Continued
Carolina Health Informatics doctoral student, Manish Kumar, MPH, has been invited as a guest speaker to the 2019 Global South eHealth Observatory Conference being held on July 1, 2019 in Lavaur, Tarn in France. The Global South eHealth Observatory … Continued
On May 1st, Dr. Saif Khairat of the Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) was inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAIMA) held during the Clinical Informatics Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Khairat, who serves as an … Continued