C. R. Ramakrishnan.ppt

10/29/04 IS Research Projects Participating Faculty Computer Science – R. Kelly Stony Brook Health Science Center – A. Bicker,A. Singer, M. LoGuidice Marine Science – R. Wilson, S. Piontkovski In-Place Research Contract Support Emergency Medicine Foundation (through 12/2006) Millennium NYStar (through 2006) US HRSA (through 2007) Sea Grant, NY NSF Division of Environmental Biology (through 2006) Projects Themes Health Science Systems Process reengineering Reduction in medical errors Knowledge representation Marine Science Systems Sensor systems Web data display Image processing Wireless applications US Healthcare Issues Costs are enormous Quality is not consistent with cost Error rate is significant Adverse events in approximately 3% of hospital stays More than 50,000 fatalities per year Anesthesiology Record Keeper Support – SB Hospital Problem Improve accuracy of anesthesia data recording Reduce documentation requirement for anesthesiologists Approach Analyze OR processes Automatic monitor data capture Integrate with hospital data Allow data overrides Status Now in use in all Stony Brook Hospital Operating Rooms (ORs) DB allows for case analysis and data mining Monitor QA Support - NYStar/US HRSA Approach Record monitor data during surgery for a large data sample Develop techniques for analyzing and comparing these recorded data streams Build a flexible network of stream integration modules Build stream analyzers to identify potential harmful conditions that are otherwise unobservable Capture secondary patient outcomes Relate secondary outcomes to monitor patterns and drug administration Provide stream data analysis for clinical trial drug effectiveness studies Emergency Room System Support – Emergency Medicine Foundation NYStar/US HRSA Problem Warning indicators missed or received following discharge Patient candidates for clinical trials not identified Approach Include an automated rule base for discharge analysis and clinical trial candidates Automaticall