National Center for Cognitive Informatics & Decision Making

Projects

Graph of NCCD projects

NCCD Grants

SHARPC

The purpose of this project is to determine how to provide cognitive support to physicians using Electronic Health Records. View the SHARPC page for more information about how it fits in the greater context of the SHARP grant. You may also view the individual project pages for more information about the five SHARPC projects:

  • Project 1: Work-Centered Design of Care Process Improvements in HIT
  • Project 2A: Cognitive Support Systems: Customized Tools for Complex Clinical Decision-Making
  • Project 2B: A Focus on Setting-Specific Factors in Achieving Widespread Adoption of Clinical Decision Support
  • Project 3: Automated Model-Based Clinical Summarization of Key Patient Data
  • Project 4: Cognitive Information Design and Visualization: Enhancing Accessibility and Understanding of Patient Data

Conformity, Compliance, and Error Reporting in the Emergency Department

Funded by UT Systems Patient Safety Grant
06/01/2010 - 12/31/2011
PI: Amy Franklin, PhD

Encoding Semantic Knowledge in Vector Space for Biomedical Information

Funded by National Library of Medicine
09/30/2010 - 09/29/2012
PI: Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD
Summary: The goal of this project is to apply emerging vector-based models of semantics to encode semantic predications into a vector space model for the purpose of information retrieval.

Other Collaboration Grants

Biomedical Informatics Training Grant

Funded by National Library of Medicine
07/01/2007 – 06/30/2012
PI: Tony Gorry and Jack Smith
Training Director for UTHealth: Jiajie Zhang

GCREC

Project no. 0007548
Funded by ONC
04/06/2010 – 04/05/2012
PI: Kim Dunn MD, PhD
website: www.uthouston.edu/gcrec

Training Program in Patient Safety and Quality

Funded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
07/01/2008-06/30/2013
PI: Dean Sittig