Division of Clinical Informatics

EXPANDING QUALITY CARE FOR GLAUCOMA THROUGH A PROVIDER-PATIENT PARTNERSHIP, NIH (National Eye Institute)

• This study is a community-based, randomized, controlled trial that evaluates the suitability and effectiveness of a technology-based (tablet computer) intervention within the context of a novel partnership between optometrists and patients with glaucoma to improve the process quality of care and ultimately outcome of care. For more information.....

AUGMENTING HEALTHCARE THROUGH PATIENT PARTICIPATION IN A RURAL COMMUNITY-BASED TELEHEALTH NETWORK, HRSA

• The goal of this project is to develop, deploy and evaluate telehealth approaches for population-based decision support for care management of Medicaid beneficiaries and for collection of health risk information directly from patients through freestanding kiosks in five rural North Carolina counties.  For more information.....

IMPROVING QUALITY THROUGH DECISION SUPPORT FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PHARMACOTHERAPY, AHRQ

• This project seeks to develop a decision support system for medication management to promote increased adherence to evidence-based pharmacotherapeutic guidelines both through traditional clinic-based models of care and through new care models including population health management and cross-disciplinary teams. For more information..... 

IMPROVING CARE TRANSITIONS FOR COMPLEX PATIENTS THROUGH DECISION SUPPORT, AHRQ

• This project seeks to develop and evaluate a decision support system that will augment the availability of information at ambulatory care practices following three types of care transitions (hospital discharges, emergency department encounters and specialty care evaluations).  For more information.....

SOFTWARE LEVERAGING A STANDARDS-BASED WEB SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION SUPPORT-PHASE II

• The long-range goal of this proposal is to make clinical decision support more available and more usable in healthcare through the further development and productization of a standards-based Web service framework for decision support known as SEBASTIAN.  For more information.....

EFFECTIVENESS OF A LUNG CANCER SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION, NIH/National Cancer Institute

• The goal of this study is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a coordinated symptom assessment and management intervention on improving health-related quality among adults with lung cancer.  For more information.....

MURDOCK Horizon 1.5

• Development of a large-scale registry and Bio-repository including information collected directly from participants and from EHRs, and a sample of blood.

ENABLING PERSONALIZED MEDICINE THROUGH CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT, NHGRI

• This five-year project seeks to develop a clinician-scientist with expertise in clinical decision support (CDS) into an independent investigator in genomic and personalized medicine.

INCREASING ATTENTION TO SMOKING RISK MESSAGES, NIH

• Assessed the information searching behavior of smokers after their knowledge of smoking-related health risks is challenged.  For more information.....

CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT, DHTS

• The goal of this project is to develop and support a disease management application for the Duke University Health System.  The application uses the SEBASTIAN (System for Evidence-Based Advice through Simultaneous Transaction with an Intelligent Agent across a Network) Web services framework to generate care recommendations for patients with diabetes and hypertension.