Our Vision

• Foster and promote research for healthcare information systems.
  
  
• Advance the scientific basis for and foster synergies between multiple areas relevant healthcare information systems. These areas include decision analysis, quality of life assessment, utility elicitation, health outcomes assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, health economics, technology assessment, evidence-based medicine, healthcare information systems and such.
  
  
• Identify, explore, demonstrate and evaluate key strategic healthcare issues affecting innovative healthcare delivery systems.
  
  
• Advance the strategic application of information systems in innovative ways aimed at improving the effectiveness of healthcare delivery.
  
  
• Develop and evaluate tools for shared decision-making with patients and the public.
  
  
• Advance the scientific basis of the field by holding scholarly meetings, offering courses, publishing a highly ranked peer-reviewed journal, and providing information through the Center's website.
  
  
• Provide a training ground for scholars in the field of healthcare decision making and policy formation.
  
  
• Serve as an incubator for the generation of new knowledge, methodological advances, and career development in healthcare.
  
  
• Foster and promote exchange and synergies between healthcare information systems scholars from different disciplines.