Denise Anthony Appointed Director of Health Informatics
Denise Anthony, professor of Health Management and Policy, has been appointed the director of the Health Informatics program at the University of Michigan.
Health Informatics Results
IN THE NEWS: A Wearable That Helps Women Get / Not Get Pregnant
New Contribution from Peter Song
Women’s bodies can be mysterious things—even to the women who inhabit them. But a wearable gadget called the Yono aims to replace mystery with knowledge derived from statistics, big data, and machine learning.
System Grading Doctors Is Inefficient, Needs Revisions
New Research from Jun Li
A system created to grade doctors and empower patients to make better decisions falls short of its goal of providing information useful to consumers, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers.
Minal Patel Receives $3.3M to Study New Tools for Unmet Social Needs in Diabetes Management
Patel and a team of collaborators will conduct a 5-year study to evaluate e-health tools for those living with diabetes and experiencing health-related financial burdens and unaddressed social determinants of health.
Mining Social Media for Community Health
New Research from the Health Informatics Program
Tiffany Veinot sees great potential for technology to improve the health of populations everywhere. As director of the University of Michigan’s Master of Health Informatics program, a partnership of the School of Public Health, the School of Information, and the School of Medicine’s Department of Learning Health Sciences, Veinot leads a cross-campus educational initiative bringing technology to bear on human health outcomes.