Eric Rojas
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- Academic unit
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, School of Medicine and Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering UC
- Lines of Research
- Clinical Informatics
- Innovation in Health - Health Information Systems
- Telemedicine
- Process Mining in Healthcare
- Data and Process Analytics
- Big Data in Health
- Software Quality Assurance Processes
- Quality Standards (COBIT, ISOs, CMMis)
- Summary
Eric Rojas, PhD in Engineering with mention in Computer Science, whose research focuses on the area of Clinical Informatics since his PhD thesis on process mining in health in 2017. He is also currently an academic at the Department of Clinical Laboratories of the Faculty of Medicine of the PUC and Leader of the Quality Area at the National Center in Health Information Systems.
His research area is Health Informatics. His research focuses on the application of process mining techniques in the health area, which allow the study of both clinical and administrative processes that are supported by information systems. He has special interest in processes associated with Emergency Rooms and patient care processes through the use of Telemedicine.
On the other hand, Professor Rojas also focuses on the development of Software Quality Assessments of Information Systems and technologies used in Health, among these, Telemedicine tools and Electronic Clinical Records, which allow their better implementation for their use in the clinical processes of patient care.
For more information on Dr. Rojas' research, visit his website here.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Informatics, University of Costa Rica, 2005.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science and Informatics, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2011
- Master in Engineering Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2017
- D. in Engineering Sciences with emphasis in Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2017
Current Projects
Fondecyt Initiation (2023-2025). "Improving the patient journey in telemedicine using process".
Principal Investigator.