Welcome to the National Institutes of Health Informatics

NIHI is a virtual, self sustaining institute of institutes operating under the concept of an academic Community of Practice. It is established as a federal not-for-profit corporation in Canada. NIHI serves as a co-ordinator and facilitator that assists in defining, fostering the development of, and bonding together local Health Informatics (HI) initiatives in academia and industry dedicated to HI research. NIHI itself is not intended as a locus of research, but rather it will catalyze, foster, facilitate and participate in research carried out by its component entities.

NIHI will have a dominant focus on the problems and issues that are perceived as important by the health system and private industry as it seeks to deliver the basis for products and services that are needed by the health system. It will also pursue the offering of professional education programs and other outreach initiatives that complement but do not compete with existing programs.

Upcoming Events

eHealth Risk Workshops 
October 18 - 20, 2010
Waterloo, Ontario
A set of two workshops address eHealth Risk, Privacy and Security.

Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp 
December 3 - 5, 2010
Calgary, Alberta
A 2.5 day intensive program introducing Health Informatics.


October 4 - 6, 2010
Toronto, Ontario

Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp
November 2010
Details will announced shortly. Please check back.

ITCH 2011 - Health Informatics - An International Perspective
February 24 - 27, 2011
Victoria, BC Canada

Press Releases

March 23, 2010 - Cisco Systems Enable First Virtual Health Informatics Conference: Press release.

June 2, 2009 - National Student Forum (NSF) for Health Informatics: Press release and more information.

Industry Partners

Institutional Partners