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Health Informatics Lab
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A lab that studies health and medical information from the perspective of creating, communicating, and using it.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating, communicating, and using health information
The lab explores how information should be provided to support the solution of health and medical problems.
Viewing information in terms of creating, communicating, and using it, the lab carries out research and practice aimed at building better environments.
Not bound by the frameworks of public health or clinical medicine, the lab deals with health and medical information across fields, conducting education and research on clinical practice guidelines, decision analysis, information literacy, eHealth, health communication, and information ethics.
Key terms
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Guidance based on scientific evidence that sets out how to diagnose and treat diseases
- Systematic review
- A study that comprehensively collects research on a given question and evaluates it as a whole
- Shared decision making
- Health care providers and patients sharing information and deciding on a treatment plan together
ResearchResearch themes
The lab pursues a variety of research from the perspective of creating, communicating, and using information and evidence.
*Illustrative imageCreating Information
The lab works on epidemiological research including genomic studies, information ethics such as informed consent and personal data protection, and the evaluation of scholarly information.
*Illustrative imageCommunicating Information
The lab conducts research on systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines, building databases, developing tools to support decision-making, and health communication.
*Illustrative imageUsing Information
The lab studies health and medical information literacy and shared decision making, in which health care providers and patients decide together.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTakeo Nakayama
- Project ProfessorYuko Takahashi
- Project ProfessorMidori Hirai
- Associate ProfessorYoshitaka Nishikawa
- Project Associate ProfessorKeiko Sato
- Program-Specific LecturerAyako Kohno
- Program-Specific LecturerMayumi Toyama
- Program-Specific LecturerMichi Sakai
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Allen Memorial Medical Library Exterior” Soundoftoday / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Creating Information: “Musculoskeletal survey Nordic questionnaire” different / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Communicating Information: “Personal Health Apps for Smartphones” Intel Free Press / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Using Information: “Middle-aged female doctor talking to a patient during a video consultation at home in a cozy setting” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Medical Communication Lab): “Military Aviator Peer Support program conducted at Ramstein (8878391)” U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jared Lovett / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Medical Ethics Lab): “Chrissy Grant, Chair of the AIATSIS Research Ethics Committee, running a GERAIS workshop at AIATSIS, 2015” Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Genetic Medicine Lab (Professional Degree Program)): “20251019 Replica DNA double helix model Berlin 04” Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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/ CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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