Informatics Program

Informatics at a glance

The Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) is a multidisciplinary applied research program. CHIP investigators, directed by Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, work at the intersection of information science, healthcare and biomedical discovery. CHIP projects fall into three major areas: bioinformatics, clinical informatics and public health informatics/biosurveillance.

CHIP's diverse faculty includes physicians with training in information science, computer scientists with expertise in the biomedical sciences, mathematicians and epidemiologists. CHIP encourages collaboration and provides shared resources to develop new information technologies--with the three central goals of enhancing biomedical research, improving patient care and promoting public health. CHIP also serves as the bioinformatics core for several national genomics investigations.

SPOTLIGHTS:

The Gene Partnership is a transformative new initiative that seeks to find the causes of complex genetic conditions--and return information back to patients.

The Gene Partnership is a transformative new initiative that seeks to find the causes of complex genetic conditions--and return information back to patients.

Gene-chip analysis sheds new light on newborn lung disease

Cancer: getting the bigger picture
Gene expression profiles provide a fresh understanding.