Center for Health Information and Decision Systems

Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland was established in an effort to research, analyze, disseminate information, manage knowledge, and recommend solutions to the multiple challenges surrounding the introduction and integration of information and decision technologies into the health care system.

CHIDS is an academia-led effort with collaboration from industry and government affiliates. Our mission is to advance the science of technology implementation and decision analysis in the health care sector and to better understand its impacts at all levels, including organizational, provider, and individual outcomes. The long-term goal of CHIDS is to improve the delivery of health care by offering research-driven solutions that impact safety, quality, access, efficiency, and ROI.

Drawing on the expertise of the Decision and Information Technologies department at the Smith School, the University of Maryland Medical Center, and other assets in the University of Maryland network, CHIDS offers the benefit of a world-class research staff with thought leaders in technology implementation, adoption, assimilation, workflow design, decision sciences, and value of IT.

As an unbiased third-party, CHIDS brings vendors, government agencies, insurers, health systems, and other HIT stake-holders together so that a common goal of improving the delivery of health care can be achieved.