Research and Community Analytics

The Department of Medical Informatics’ research activities focus on health and healthcare delivery improvement in an effort to facilitate a Learning Health System in Oklahoma and nationwide. In a Learning Health System, healthcare IT and advanced health analytics enable data from today’s healthcare activities and decisions to become tomorrow’s clinical decision support, population management, and clinical research findings. Historically, the discovery and incorporation of new knowledge into healthcare delivery has taken more than a decade to achieve. The Learning Health System promises to greatly reduce the time and expenses required to discover new knowledge and put it into practice. The Department of Medical Informatics is actively working to achieve the Learning Health System through innovative collaborations.