The Dror (Imri) Aloni Center for health informatics

​​What will our healthcare system look like in the age of digitation? How do the use of wearable, self-tracking, and remote health information technologies (HIT) affect patients’ and experts’ decision-making? How do people decide about immunization, wearing masks, and social distancing? What affects do nudging and social media have on simple and mundane health decisions? And finally, who is left behind this information highway, and what can be done about it?

These and other questions pertain to the daily lives of publics around the world, and therefore form the core of research by researchers at the Dror (Imri) Health informatics Center, at the Ruppin Academic Center.

Led by Dr. Shirly Bar-Lev, 8 researchers from multiple disciplines: industrial engineering and management, economics and business administration, bioinformatics, Gerontological clinical psychology, behavioral sciences and nursing. Together they produce a multidisciplinary approach to studying health system management issues and technology implementation and use. Thus combining theoretical knowledge with hand-on practice.

The Center is dedicated to studying issues related to making HIT accessible to diverse populations, as well as promoting interventions that will enable decision makers to introduce timely changes in policy. To that end our researchers work hand in hand with policy makers, practitioners, patients and other experts in the field of data science and digitation. Amongst our collaborators are: HMOs (health maintenance organizations), several Israeli Healthcare centers, old age homes.