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
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HEALTH CARE BUSINESS CONSULTING? The School of Medicine and Kenan-Flagler Business School are seeking committed medical students to volunteer to participate in a pilot partnership called STAR (Student Teams Achieving Results)– an action … Continued
A recent article by Bizztor discusses how the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi will begin to allow selected PhD students the ability to launch a startup in lieu of a thesis. To read the full article, click here