Government-related

@CDC and HHS
Application development

  • Patient data collection for chronic disease management (Electronic data capture, Feasibility study, Clinical decision support, Guideline compliance)
  • Web design and content for unknown causes of death/ unusual infections
  • Data specifications/requirements gathering for the West Nile Virus
  • Public Health links website (Taxonomy development, User interface design, Public Health information resource)
  • Web architecture and content development for the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) (Overlap with national policy development, Sub-site on evolving evidence/impact of HIT on healthcare (e.g. medical errors, patient safety and costs))
Data Transformation

  • Alignment of transplant data with healthcare standards to enhance data quality for decision-making in life-saving transplantation of solid organs
  • Evaluate challenges faced by organ procurement centers and transplant centers in terms of available data and timing to meet requirements
Search technology

  • Search engine evaluation (Organizational culture, content and technology assessment, Information retrieval capabilities, Revision of search interface and query features, Development of metatagging process for data elements)
  • Log file analysis (Consumer search preferences, Revision of hot topics, Common misspellings, Trending analysis)
  • Search engine model development (Dynamic taxonomy creation based on consumer queries)
Surveillance tools

  • Transforming HL7 free-text messages into ICD-9-CM codes for reporting
Public Health thesaurus

  • Evaluation of commercial tools for taxonomy and content development
  • Addition of bioterrorism concepts