Loyola University Chicago launched the Center for Health Outcomes and Informatics Research (CHOIR) in 2017 to educate and engage faculty, health care professionals, resident physicians, and students in the fundamentals of health outcomes research and data-driven health care delivery and outcomes. Simply put, CHOIR strives to create a data-driven culture to improve outcomes and health equity.
Collaboration with our academic medical center partner at Loyola University Health System and our clinical partner at Trinity Health is central to CHOIR. In the United States, health care organizations are expected to deliver effective, high-quality care as efficiently as possible to best serve patients. Over the last decade, many health care organizations have made significant investments to implement electronic health records and also have invested in clinical trials. CHOIR brings the expertise and resources to leverage informatics and big data in health care to improve health care and health equality.