National Center for Cognitive Informatics & Decision Making

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

Encoding Semantic Knowledge in Vector Space for Biomedical Information

Funded by: National Library of Medicine
09/30/2010 - 09/29/2013
PI: Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD

Conformity, Compliance, and Error Reporting in the Emergency Department

Funded by: UT Systems Patient Safety Grant
06/01/2010 - 08/31/2013
PI: Amy Franklin, PhD

Other Collaboration Grants

Biomedical Informatics Training Grant

Funded by: National Library of Medicine
07/01/2007 – 06/30/2017
PI: Tony Gorry, PhD 
Training Director for UTHealth: Elmer Bernstam MD, MSE, MS, FACP, FACMI

GCREC

Funded by: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
04/06/2010 – 04/05/2014 
PI: Jiajie Zhang, PhD
website: www.uthouston.edu/gcrec

Cognitive Complexity and Error in Critical Care, ER and Trauma

Funded by: James S. McDonnell Foundation (NYAM)
11/01/2012 - 10/31/2013
PI: Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD

The Clinical Decision Support Consortium for AHRQ CDS Research

Funded by: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
07/11/2011 - 07/08/2013
PI: Dean Sittig, PhD

Training Program in Patient Safety and Quality

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