Health is one of the most rapidly growing areas of research in the iSchool movement because of its social importance, the significant role of information and information technology in health care, and the intertwined social, organizational, medical, and technical issues associated with solving health care problems. With the aging population and the epidemic of obesity in the United States, there is rapidly increasing attention on health issues. Approximately one third of the faculty in the UT iSchool are working on issues of health information or health informatics. A number of our faculty members are working on a single disease, diabetes, which is the most prevalent and costly chronic illness in America. While the focus of much of the faculty’s research on health targets the United States, many of these projects have obvious applications to health issues in other countries. Here is a survey of the work being carried out in the UT School of Information, as of fall 2009, on health information and health informatics.

See the full list of current research at: iSchool Research on Health Information and Health Informatics.