NICHE Areas

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NICHE Areas
NICHE Collaborations
NICHE Services

• NICHE offers health informatics RD expertise in
• Computerization of clinical guidelines for
  point-of-care use
• Single disease or co-morbid diseases
• Computerization of clinical pathways/workflows to
  coordinate care
• Development of knowledge-based clinical decision
  support systems
• Personalization of patient education packages and
  delivery using web and mobile technologies
• Generation of personalized patient care plans
• (1) Treatment care plans and (2) Nursing care
  plans
• Home-based patient surveillance and response
  systems
• E-Clinic for remote patient interactions
• Collaborative knowledge translation frameworks
• Web-based communities of practice (patients
  practitioners)
• Data mining for deriving interesting analysis
  from large volume data
• Health business intelligence for institutional
  administration support

• NICHE collaborates to
• Develop user-specific health informatics systems
• Develop and evaluate small-scale prototype
  solutions as proof-of-concept for a larger
  healthcare solution
• Perform technology assessment (for upgrade or new
  systems)
• Specify health informatics technology-driven
  solutions
• Develop research proposals
• Review RD proposals (technical content)
• Brainstorm new vision/ideas/projects
• Advice on art-of-the-possible

• NICHE offers services as
• Consultants
• Contract solution providers
• System designers and/or developers
• Collaborators on grant-funded RD projects

NICHE Data

• NICHE is
• A leader in health informatics research-based
  solutions
• A multi-disciplinary research group comprising
  members from health and computing streams
• A student training and mentoring environment
• An active collaborator with health
  researchers/practitioners and industry on
  multiple healthcare projects/grants
• A prolific publisher/presenter of research
  outcomes at international forums

For more information contact Prof. Raza Abidi,
NICHE Director, Faculty of Computer Science,
Dalhousie University, Halifax. Email
sraza_at_cs.dal.ca Ph 902-4942129 OR visit
www.niche.cs.dal.ca
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• NICHE research group is a university-based
  research group specializing in state-of-the-art
  health informatics solutions to improve patient
  care
• NICHE research group works in collaboration with
  healthcare institutions, industry, researchers
  and practitioners to develop customized health
  informatics solutions for your specialized
  patient care needs
• NICHE research group offers health informatics
  expertise to health services programs and health
  research projects
• NICHE research group seeks collaborations if
  you have interesting projects that require
  computing technology support then we will like to
  work with you.

For more information contact Prof. Raza Abidi,
NICHE Director, Faculty of Computer Science,
Dalhousie University, Halifax. Email
sraza_at_cs.dal.ca Ph 902-4942129 OR visit
www.niche.cs.dal.ca