Centers and Labs

National Centers

National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare (NCCD)
The NCCD is funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program, which seeks to support improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of health care through advanced information technology.

Centers

Center for Biosecurity & Public Health Informatics

Center for Computational Biomedicine

Gulf Coast Regional Extension Center
The mission of the Gulf Coast Regional Extension Center (GCREC) is to facilitate safe, effective, and meaningful use of state-of-the-art health information technology by all healthcare providers in the region by focusing on primary care practices and their integration with local, state, and federal Health Information Exchange activities with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the citizens they serve.

Research Labs

Preventative Health Informatics and Spatial Temporal Analysis (PHISTA)
The primary research focus of Lab PHISTA is to apply information, information technology, and knowledge management to improve public health practice, education, management and policy

Laboratory for Computational Biology and Delivery Systems

Affiliated Centers

Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
The goal of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) is to facilitate clinical and translational research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the Memorial Hermann Hospital System.

University of Texas-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety
This center's primary goal is to conduct research that generates new knowledge about how to improve the quality and safety of healthcare.