Health Informatics

The Division of Health Informatics pursues research, education, and service in the application of information science and technology to improve human health, healthcare quality, and the value of healthcare. Division faculty have expertise in the use and effects of information technology in healthcare, such as adoption, usability, fit, utility, generalizability, scalability or sustainability, and in the intelligent use of data to inform policy and decision making, such as applications of data mining, machine learning or analytics. Division faculty and staff participate in multi-disciplinary, collaborative projects with other divisions, departments and partner organizations, including faculty, staff and students at the Medical College in NYC and Qatar, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Tech and Cornell University in Ithaca.

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CUNY-WCM Big Data Training Program in Biomedical Informatics (BD2BMI)

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Health Informatics Master's Track

Current Research Highlights

Association of Co-Occurring Opioid or Other Substance Use Disorders with Increased Healthcare Utilization in Patients with Depression

May 10, 2021

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2018, and nearly 20 percent of those with mental illness experienced a co-occurring substance use disorder (SUD). To help inform policy during the ongoing addiction crisis, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers examined how opioid use disorder (OUD) impacts healthcare utilization relative to other SUDs. Dr. Jyotishman Pathak, professor of population health sciences;...

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The Future of Health Informatics Using Federated Learning

April 21, 2021

Dr. Fei Wang, associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, consistently works with innovative models and concepts to advance his research. Recently, Dr. Wang has collaborated on multiple projects to understand the best uses for federated learning, a general learning strategy that can be applied to any type of concrete machine...

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MS in Healthcare Policy and Research Provides Valuable Experience in a Shifting Healthcare Industry

February 11, 2021

Healthcare systems around the world have innovatively adjusted to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. In turn, healthcare curriculum has grown to ensure students are well-equipped to enter the workforce under this “new norm.” On top of that, MS in Healthcare Policy and Research students at Weill Cornell Medicine are completing capstone projects that bring them closer to what’s happening in the field before graduation. ...

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Health Informatics

Training Grant

Affiliated Education Program

Current Research Highlights

Association of Co-Occurring Opioid or Other Substance Use Disorders with Increased Healthcare Utilization in Patients with Depression

The Future of Health Informatics Using Federated Learning

MS in Healthcare Policy and Research Provides Valuable Experience in a Shifting Healthcare Industry

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