Health Informatics
SoC is the only school in the region to offer a major, in addition to a concentration, in Health Informatics (HI). Our research focus is on risk assessment of healthcare systems as well as health informatics curriculum development.
A number of our faculty working in Data Science are doing research in medical and bio- informatics, with some crossover and collaborative work with our health informatics faculty. Research in the HI field is often interdisciplinary, with investigators in the medical disciplines being frequent collaborators.
Recent HI research by SoC faculty and students includes:
Reducing Medication Errors Through Clinical Simulation
Participants:
Springhill Hospital
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ School of Computing
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College of Nursing
Objectives:
Determine factors that lead to real-life clinical medication errors; Design and build a simulation that is able replication known factors as well as test the impact of proposed factors; Use findings to create a real-time decision support tool for clinicians; Use the simulator to train and evaluate student nurses.
Participants:
Mitchell Cancer Institute
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ School of Computing
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College of Nursing
Objectives:
Monitor patients’ health after receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatments; Track patient symptoms and provide support; Alert physicians to changes in the patient’s condition
Participants:
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College of Medicine
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ School of Computing
Project Objectives:
Develop an application that produces a virtual community with controllable attributes of age, ethnic, gender and other parameters. Model epidemiological, clinical, prophylactic and treatment parameters of obesity, hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis, including coronary artery disease and stroke, among appropriate number of individuals of the virtual patient community. Allow all virtual patients to progress based on natural history, prophylaxis and treatment of diseases so that each student can follow a group of virtual patients throughout their lifetimes.
Participants:
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ School of Computing
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ College of Nursing
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Center for Strategic Health Innovation
Data Source: CMS - 2011 Medicare Claims Data, 5% sample
Project Objectives:
Identify factors leading to patient readmission for a number of common diseases; suggest actions that providers can take to mi