News and events

Join us for this virtual mini-conference on Health Information Exchange Standards. You are welcome to attend any one or all six sessions.

Health terminology and data exchange standards are integral to the successful adoption of interoperable EHR systems. This public seminar series is part of the School of Health Information Science Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology Standards program.

A Health Information Science research team was awarded a REACH grant through the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research* (MSFHR) to further develop CIHR-funded work in modernizing how sexual and gender minorities are documented and identified within Canadian electronic health records.

Dennis Hang shares his co-op experience working the front desk at the Victoria Conference Centre vaccine clinic.

We are delighted to share the Faculty of Human and Social Development newsletter.

Congratulations to Dr. Helen Monkman, 2021 recipient of the HSD Teaching Excellence awards presented by the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria.

Congratulations to Shannon Malovec, PHSA's Chief Digital Innovation Officer, for being named one of the Forty Under 40 award recipients. Shannon is a gifted leader and a true champion of digital health strategies to improve patient care.

Zen Tharani won an award for top 25 immigrants.

The School of Health Information Science invites applications for the position of full-time tenure stream Assistant Professor, earliest appointment effective July 1, 2022, or as negotiated. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2022.

Jos Aarts named Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association of the 2022 class.

Congratulations to Amr Farghali, 2021 Steven Huesing Scholarship recipient. The scholarship was established in 1999 to reflect the spirit, dedication and innovation that our founding president brought to the field of health informatics.

Visual and Automated Disease Analytics Data Science and AI program Summer School.

“The most memorable part of UVic time was its unique, lovely campus life. The combination of beautiful gardens, amazing bicycle paths, tons of study spaces, natural jungles and valleys, excellent family centre and warm coffee shops and restaurants … all makes UVic life hardly forgettable.”

Sex and Gender Working Group Ready for Action in 2021

A UVic-led research team was awarded funding through the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research to develop previous CIHR-funded work in modernizing how sexual and gender minorities are documented and identified within Electronic Health Records.

Mary Ziel Boncajes, a fourth-year Health Information Science student at the University of Victoria, has been chosen as the HINF 2020 Co-op Student of the Year.

Health Terminology Standards Seminars, May & June 2021, 5-6pm PT/ 8-9PM ET

Congratulations to Evangeline Wagner and Thomas Armstrong for receiving the 2020/2021 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA).

Rav Goodison explains what it’s like to work full-time in health informatics during a pandemic while completing a PhD online, designing and applying urgent solutions to frontline workers. As a full-time contract project manager working across BC’s burgeoning Vancouver - Lower Mainland region, Rav Goodison is also completing her PhD online at the School of Health Information Science with a focus on improving project delivery. To do this is challenging; to do this during a pandemic even more so.