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Project Title:
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Engaging the Computer Science Research Community in Health Care Informatics
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PIN:
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CSTB-L-06-01-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Sub Unit:
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DEPS Computer Science & Telecommuncations Board
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RSO:
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Lin, Herb
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Project Scope
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CSTB would conduct a 2-phase study to examine information technology (IT) problems faced by the health care system in realizing the emerging vision of patient-centered, evidence-based, efficient health care using electronic heath records and other IT. The study would focus on the foundation issue of the electronic health record.
In phase 1, the committee would conduct a series of site visits to a variety of health care delivery sites. A short (roughly 5000 word) phase 1 report, based largely on the site visits, would assess the match between today's health information systems and current plans for using electronic heath records nationwide, identify important information management problems that could be solved relatively easily and inexpensively (i.e., where short pay-back periods and quick improvements would be possible) by today's technologies, provide (non-comprehensive) illustrations of how today's knowledge about computer science (CS) and IT could be used for to provide immediate short-term benefits to the health care system, and lay out important questions that future reports (from this or other studies) should address.
In phase 2, the committee would prepare a phase 2 report identifying technical areas where additional CS/IT research is needed to further advance the state of the art of health care IT, priorities for research that would yield significantly increased medical effectiveness or reduced costs; information management problems whose solutions require new practices and policies; and public policy questions that need to be resolved to allow such research to proceed.
Both reports are intended to identify technical solutions to advance health care IT, to expose the information technology and computer science research communities to important technical problems, and to provide a foundation for other studies related to health care informatics.
The project is sponsored by DHHS/NLM, the National Science Foundation, Partners HealthCare System, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Commonwealth Fund, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The approximate start date for the project is October 1, 2006.
A Phase 1 report will be released about midway through the project and a Phase 2 report at the end of the project in approximately 24 months.
Update 9-24-08: The project duration has been extended an additional 6 months. Phase 1 report release will commence in January 2009 and Phase 2 report release will take place no later than April 2009.
Update 1-09-09: Phase 1 of the report entitled Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions was released on January 9, 2009.
Update 03-13-09: Phase 1 of the report was delivered in hard copy in February 2009.
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Project Duration:
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24 months
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