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

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New Faculty Q & A With Dr. Yifan Peng

August 10, 2020

Dr. Yifan Peng is an assistant professor of population health sciences in the Division of Health Informatics. After receiving his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Delaware in 2016, Dr. Peng worked as a research fellow at the National Center for...

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Information Visualization Helps Patients Contextualize Patient Reported Outcomes

July 28, 2020

Visual analogies have shown to be more successful than graphs in helping patients comprehend patient-reported outcomes (PRO) according to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

In recent years, the use of PROs has grown increasingly popular due to their effectiveness in informing clinicians, researchers, and policymakers about patients’ quality of life, treatment satisfaction, and disease perception. Patients, too, have benefited as PROs are critical for self-...

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Generating Evidence for Cardiac Care for COVID-19 Patients through Implantable Medical Devices

July 1, 2020

Data from implantable medical devices can reveal the impact of COVID-19 on the trajectory of cardiac illness and recovery. In a new collaboration with Boston Scientific, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP) are examining remote data collected from patients using cardiac devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators.

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Training Grant

Affiliated Education Program

Current Research Highlights

New Faculty Q & A With Dr. Yifan Peng

Information Visualization Helps Patients Contextualize Patient Reported Outcomes

Generating Evidence for Cardiac Care for COVID-19 Patients through Implantable Medical Devices

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