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The Carolina Center for Health Informatics is a practice-based, multidisciplinary research unit within the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CCHI staff are involved in a variety of informatics-related projects and oversee the continuing development and maintenance of the in collaboration with the .

Areas of Expertise include:

• Secondary data collection, processing and analysis for population level surveillance and research;
• Syndromic surveillance;
• Iterative and user-centered software development;
• Epidemiologic analyses.

CCHI works with many projects and data systems, including NC DETECT, North Carolina’s statewide syndromic surveillance system; CDC and North Carolina’s programs to expand opioid overdose surveillance and prevention; the ºÚÁÏÍø Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) and Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) efforts to link motor vehicle crash and injury outcome data; and the ºÚÁÏÍø Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety (CSCRS) systems research endeavors.

CCHI Staff:

• Clifton Barnett, MSIS: DBA & ETL Manager – cbarnett@ad.unc.edu
• Amy Ising, PhD: Associate Director, CCHI & NC DETECT Program Director – amy_ising@med.unc.edu
• Matthew Kerber, Data Quality Manager – mrkerber@email.unc.edu
• Meichun Li, MSIS: Software Engineer – mcli@email.unc.edu
• Shaun Mason, MLS: Systems and Network Administrator, Privacy and Security Officer – shaun_mason@med.unc.edu
• Anna Waller, ScD: CCHI Executive Director – awaller@med.unc.edu

For a list of CCHI collaborators and students, please go to .