Southern Danielle A, Eastwood Cathy A, O'Connor Erin, Doktorchik Chelsea, Tonelli Marcello, Meddings Jon, Quan Hude, Williamson Tyler S
Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Int J Popul Data Sci. 2024 Mar 21;9(1):2368. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v9i1.2368. eCollection 2024.
Precision Medicine and Precision Public Health are approaches to improve population health. Achieving these goals requires innovation in health informatics. The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) within the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) at the University of Calgary (UC), Canada, was created to respond to this need by fostering multidisciplinary collaborations, building capacity by recruiting and training outstanding faculty and students, and harnessing Alberta's rich health data to advance health informatics. To establish CHI as a health informatics leader, CHI has struck partnerships with stakeholders, including Alberta Health Services (AHS), Alberta Health (AH), and the Alberta Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Unit (AbSPORU) among others. Through these close relationships, the CHI intake team facilitates access to Alberta's rich health data sources and educates researchers on the available health data in Alberta. The concept of a "One Stop Shop" for CSM and UC researchers encourages multidisciplinary collaboration, helps investigators access a wide range of datasets, and receive analytical support. Population-based data sets enable the development of methods to turn raw data into health information, improve health data collection, linkage, analysis, and quality, and applied studies creating clinical decision-support tools, prognostic tools, improved health surveillance methods, and health system performance indicators. CHI's ecosystem of diverse research expertise, cutting-edge technology, and embedded AHS analysts to support data access via a wide-ranging network of partnerships allows our provincial researchers, national and international collaborators tremendous opportunities for empirical research. It paves the way for implementing Precision Medicine in the real world.
精准医学和精准公共卫生是改善人群健康的方法。实现这些目标需要健康信息学方面的创新。加拿大卡尔加里大学卡明医学院（CSM）内的健康信息学中心（CHI）就是为满足这一需求而设立的，它通过促进多学科合作、招募和培养优秀教职员工及学生来建设能力，并利用艾伯塔省丰富的健康数据来推动健康信息学发展。为将CHI打造成健康信息学领域的领军者，CHI与包括艾伯塔省卫生服务局（AHS）、艾伯塔省卫生部（AH）以及艾伯塔省患者导向研究战略单位（AbSPORU）等在内的利益相关者建立了合作关系。通过这些紧密联系，CHI的接收团队为获取艾伯塔省丰富的健康数据源提供便利，并就该省可用的健康数据对研究人员进行培训。为CSM和卡尔加里大学的研究人员提供“一站式服务”的理念鼓励了多学科合作，帮助研究人员获取广泛的数据集，并获得分析支持。基于人群的数据集有助于开发将原始数据转化为健康信息的方法，改善健康数据的收集、关联、分析和质量，以及开展应用研究以创建临床决策支持工具、预后工具、改进的健康监测方法和卫生系统绩效指标。CHI拥有多样的研究专业知识、前沿技术以及嵌入式AHS分析师的生态系统，通过广泛的合作网络支持数据访问，这为我们的省级研究人员、国内和国际合作者提供了大量实证研究机会。它为在现实世界中实施精准医学铺平了道路。
