Children's Hospital Informatics Program
Director: Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
| Core Summary: |
The Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) is a multidisciplinary applied research and education program at Children's Hospital Boston. CHIP investigators work at the intersection of information science, healthcare and biomedical discovery, advancing the state-of-the-art in functional genomics, personalized medicine, biomedical research collaboration and public health. Since 1995, CHIP researchers have worked to set the highest standards for patient autonomy and privacy. Our "Instrumenting the Healthcare Enterprise" initiatives focus on accelerating collaborative research across institutions, and on providing tools and services directly to patients, allowing them to be become more active, engaged participants in both their own healthcare and the broader research community.
| Categories and Institutions: |
|
|
| Personnel/Contact Information: |
Director: Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD
Email
Member: Marie Boyle
Role: Administrative contact
Email
| Services: |
- AEGIS-Automated Epidemiologic Geotemporal Integrated Surveillance System
The AEGIS System performs automated, real-time surveillance for bioterrorism and naturally occurring outbreaks. It is the syndromic surveillance system for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, enabling real time population health monitoring
- Genomic Prognostics
Interpretation of whole physiologies (and pathologies) using empiircal grounding offered by high-throughput, comprehensive measurements
- HealthMap
HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health
- i2b2-Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside
The i2b2 Center is developing a scalable informatics framework that will bridge clinical research data and the vast data banks arising from basic science research in order to better understand the genetic bases of complex diseases
- Indivo PCHR
Indivo is a personally controlled health record system that enables patients to own complete, secure copies of their medical records
- SPIN-Shared Pathology Informatics Network
The objective of this initiative is to use state-of-the-art informatics techniques to establish an Internet-based virtual database that will allow investigators to locate appropriate human tissue specimens for their research. The SPIN software will allow approved researchers access to data that describe archived tissue specimens across multiple institutions while still allowing those institutions to maintain local control of the data
| Departmental Web Link: |