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What is the CHI Centre?
The CHI Centre aspires:
- to be a centre of excellence specialising in research, education and training, and consultancy at the leading edge of medical and health informatics.
- to be an accepted leader in the application of medical and health informatics.
- in medicine, health care and the related industries.
- to promote medical and health informatics and application through publications, education and training.
Activities include:
- Applied and contract research.
- Research training and postgraduate education.
- Short course provision for clinicians, scientists and managers.
- Consultancy for health care provider institutions and industry.
The focus of the activities of the CHI Centre is Medical and Health Informatics.
These are the disciplines concerned with the theory and practice of information technology in the:
- Acquisition
- Processing
- Interpreting
- Dissemination
- Patient Care
- Clinical Research
- Clinical Education
- Health Management
- systems analysis
- modelling
- measurement and instrumentation
- advanced computational methods
- knowledge-based techniques
Linkage
The CHI Centre carries out its activities, working in very close co-operation with leading hospitals and other clinical and health-related institutions including:- Guy's King's College and St.Thomas' School of Medicine
- Hillingdon Hospital
- North Central London Strategic Health Authority
- Royal London Hospital
International Collaboration
Includes current and recent joint research and educational ventures with:- AUSTRALIA - University of New South Wales, Sydney
- CANADA - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, University of Victoria,
- DENMARK - Aalborg University; Judex Datasystems
- ESTONIA - Tartu University Clinics
- FRANCE - Ecole Central de Lille
- HUNGARY - Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest
- ITALY - University of Pavia;University of Padova; Politecnico di Milano, Milan
- JORDAN - Al-Isra University, Amman
- PORTUGAL - Pulido Valente Hospital, Lisbon; Espirito Santo û Evora Hospital
- SPAIN - Polytechnic University of Madrid; CESTEL; DOADEM Barcelona