Funding Award for Patient and Public Engagement in Health Research in the Design and Grant Development Phase - Spring 2018 Award Winners Announced

posted: 2018.03.23

The George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, in partnership with the Manitoba SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations (PIHCI), recently held their second round of callouts for the Funding Award for Patient and Public Engagement in Health Research in the Design and Grant Development Phase.

George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation and WRHA release interim evaluation of Healing our Health System plan

posted: 2018.02.13

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) released an interim evaluation of the first three months of the region's phase one of clinical consolidation.

Lunchtime Learning Series: Budgeting for Patient & Public Engagement in Health Research

posted: 2018.03.08

Watch the YouTube video of Patient and Public Engagement Lead, Carolyn Shimmin's presentation.

Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

posted: 2018.02.26

Data Science Director, Dr. Lisa Lix has been invited to be a guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics "Call for Papers - Special Section on Big Data Analytics in Healthcare".

Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Program Applications Now Open

posted: 2018.01.15

The Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Program is an innovative and joint initiative between the University of Manitoba and University of Victoria funded by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) as part of its Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program.

The Manitoba Metadata Inventory

posted: 2018.01.25

The Manitoba Metadata Inventory is part of the worldwide movement to make existing health data from randomized clinical trials (RCTs), observational, and cohort studies available for re-use. Data re-use initiatives have numerous benefits for health researchers, including re-examination of the accuracy of original study findings, and development of new studies about the long-term benefits and harms of treatments.

Massive Transfusion: Improving processes of care and clinical outcomes through systems change

2018.01.31 - 12pm to 1pm

Watch the YouTube video to learn about the impact CHI facilitated!

The facts about PAX

posted: 2017.12.14

George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation researcher is studying a classroom program that promises to help protect kids against bullying, substance abuse and suicide

KnowledgeNudge Reader Survey

posted: 2018.01.05

The KnowledgeNudge survey will gauge how well our content meets the needs of our readers, and to determine what you’d like to see more of in 2018.

CHI article makes the 2017 Altmetric Top 100 list

posted: 2017.12.12

This year’s Altmetric Top 100 2017 features an article from the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation - Knowledge Synthesis platform at position #33.

2016-17 George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation Annual Report

posted: 2017.09.20

New program will help us manage and prevent chronic and infectious diseases

posted: 2017.11.27

The VADA program is housed at the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences under the direction of Data Science - Director, Dr. Lisa Lix.

Dr. Lisa Lix Awarded by the Public Health Agency of Canada

posted: 2017.10.10

The Public Health Agency of Canada recognized long-serving member of the Science Committee for the Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System, CHI Data Science Director - Dr. Lisa Lix.

Public Lecture: Patient Informed Consent in Clinical Research

2017.10.31 - 12pm to 1pm

On October 31—in partnership with CancerCare Manitoba and University of Manitoba, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine—the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) hosted a thought-provoking public lecture on Patient Informed Consent in Clinical Trials.

Dr. Pingzhao Hu's award-winning project highlighted at the Western Canadian Universities Big Data Health Conference

posted: 2017.10.24

Dr. Hu's project entitled "Genome-wide diet-gene interaction analysis for risk of psychiatric co-morbidity in inflammatory bowel disease" is a collaboration with University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan and University of Manitoba.