Eric Rojas

Eric Rojas
  • PositionAssistant Professor
  • Emaileric.rojas@uc.cl
  • Academic unitClinical Laboratory Department, Faculty of Medicine and Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering
  • Research Areas

Eric Rojas, Doctor in Engineering with a mention in Computing, whose research focuses on Clinical Informatics since his doctoral thesis in process mining in healthcare in 2017. He is currently also an academic in the Department of Clinical Laboratories of the Faculty of Medicine at the PUC and Leader of the Quality Assurance Area at the National Center for Health Information Systems.

His research area is health informatics. His research focuses on the application of process mining techniques in healthcare, which allows 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 using Telemedicine.

On the other hand, Professor Rojas also focuses on the development of Software Quality Assessments of Information Systems and the technologies used in Healthcare, among them, Telemedicine tools and Electronic Clinical Records, which allow their best implementation for patient care.

For more information about Dr. Rojas' research, visit his website here

Education

  • B.S Computer Sciences and Informatics, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2005. With honors 
  • Master Computer Sciences and Informatics, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2011. With honors 
  • Master Engineering Science, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2017
  • Ph.D. Engineering with an emphasis in Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2017

Research lines

  • Clinical Informatics
  • Health Innovation - Health Information Systems
  • Telemedicine
  • Process mining in Healthcare
  • Data and Process Analytics
  • Big Data in Healthcare
  • Software Quality Assurance Processes
  • Quality Standards (COBIT, ISOs, CMMis)

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