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The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Health Information Technology Research (COEHITR) is an interdisciplinary initiative with a mission to accelerate health promotion and health care transformation through the research, design, development and integration of health information and decision technologies. The University of Maryland through its College Park and Baltimore campuses has a strong foundation of outstanding health technology research capabilities and a critical mass of faculty and resources, equipping this new center to be a national leader in this vital area. Read more about the center here.
The
Innovate 4
Healthcare Challenge is founded on the belief that
health outcomes can be improved through more fully engaging
patients with self-management of their health and with their
healthcare professional. Recognizing that patient engagement
and enhanced patient-provider communication is critical to
improving healthcare quality while simultaneously reducing
cost, policy makers in the United States and globally have
issued a broad call for more patient-centric healthcare
systems. With
several trends foreseen such as a growing aging population
and a reduced number of health care providers, along with
growing health care costs, but with greater availability and
liquidity health data, systemic improvements are necessary
and possible. The past few years have witnessed the
emergence of a growing number of nascent solutions that will
bring us closer to patient-centered healthcare. However,
what is lacking is a major breakthrough idea that will
question existing assumptions about patient- provider
engagement and offer a novel and innovative solution to this
issue. The Challenge is to derive a compelling Solution
(processes, enabling technologies and a market strategy) to
answer this call with better health outcomes as the primary
end goal.
The Center of Excellence in Health IT Research has awarded $15,000 in funding to each of two teams working on promising health information technologies as part of the inaugural Health IT Seed Grant Program. The investments demonstrate the University of Maryland’s commitment to advancing innovation and research to accelerate the transformation of the nation’s health care system. The two projects “A Real Time Electronic Network for Early Oral Cancer Risk Assessment and Detection” and “Investigating Disparity of Bone Health by Integrating Bone Mineral Density Data,” are applying advanced methods for improving care coordination and using secondary use of EHR data, respectively. Read more here.
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