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The Centre for Health Informatics has been supporting wellness through information technology for children in hospital since 2000.  The culmination of this research has led to a number of developments which are currently in use across hospitals nationally.  Spending a lifetime with a serious or chronic health condition can be traumatic and physically and emotionally painful. This is especially true when the individual enduring the condition is a child or adolescent.  They are faced with a myriad of challenges that their healthy peers may never experience.  

Challenges that impact a child’s ability to cope socially, emotionally, and or physically are often referred to as ‘psychosocial’ challenges. These include isolation, change in family dynamics, depression, withdrawal, loss of peer interaction to name but a few. These problems can hinder a child’s treatment and recovery. Addressing their specific needs has been at the core of some of the research work currently being carried out at the Centre for Health Informatics, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and The National Paediatric Haematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin.