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Project Title: Local Access to Coordinated Healthcare

Goals: Project to provide care management services to uninsured persons, especially of Latino ethnicity, through a coordinated program supported by shared information system.

Funding Source: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Community Access Program

Project Duration: 9/01/2002 – 8/31/2005

Principal Investigator: Susan Yaggy, M.P.A.

Co-Investigator(s): Susan Denman, Ph.D., RN, FNP-C; Cathrine Hoyo, Ph.D.; David Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.

Project Title: Promoting Health in Prostate and Breast Cancer

Goal: The goal of this project was to develop, implement, and evaluate a program to promote healthier lifestyles through a tailored correspondence course designed to effect behavior change in the areas of diet and exercise among cancer survivors.
Funding Source: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Project Duration: 12-01/00-11/30/04
Principal Investigator(s): Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Ph.D., RD, LDN
Co-Investigator(s): David Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.; Miriam Morey, Ph.D.; Elizabeth Clipp, Ph.D., RN; Harvey J. Cohen, M.D.; William E. Kraus, M.D.; Colleen M. McBride, Ph.D.; Isaac Lipkus, Ph.D.

Project Title: Point-of-Care Delivery of Research Evidence

Goals: Project to develop and implement a decision support system that presents evidence-based practice recommendations to providers at the point of need.

Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Project Duration: 9/29/2000 - 9/28/2004

Principal Investigator: Andrew Balas, M.D., Ph.D., University of St. Lewis

Co-PI for Duke Subcontract: David F. Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.

Co-PI for UCLA Subcontract: Robert Jenders, M.D., M.S.

Project Title: Development of an Information Infrastructure to Support Collaboration for Population-based Health Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Goal: To develop and evaluate a web-based system to help health care providers manage patients across several different institutional settings through the use of enhanced patient tracking, event notification and utilization review.
Funding Source: Department of Commerce

Project Duration: 10/01/99-09/30/03

Principal Investigator: David F. Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Co-Investigator(s): Lloyd Michener, M.D.; Susan Yaggy, M.P.A.

Project Title: Web-Based Patient Recruiting for Clinical Trials

Funding Source: Claude D. Pepper Older Americian Independence Center, Duke University
Project Duration: 01/01/02-12/31/02
Principal Investigator: David F. Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.

Project Title: Evaluation of an Adaptive Patient Data Entry Interface

Goal: To develop and evaluate a web-based system that facilitates collection of clinical data directly from patients by adapting the user interface based on an assessment of the user's skill level in a specific domain. Initial development will focus on a health maintenance and risk assessment questionnaire adapted to a patient's literacy level.
Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Project Duration: 09/30/1998-09/29/02
Principal Investigator: David Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Co-Investigator(s): Karen A. Erickson, Ph.D.; Joseph W. Hales, Ph.D.; David Koppenhaver, Ph.D.; Kathleen Melton, M.D.; Kimberly H. Yarnall, M.D.; Marci K. Campbell, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Project Title: Development and Testing of an Automated System for Assessing Cancer Risk and Providing Relevant Recommendations to Patients and Providers

Goals: Develop and test a computer program, the Cancer Risk Intake System, that assesses needs and provides, for patients and their providers, individually tailored printed information regarding breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer risk and, when appropriate, recommendations for screening, tamoxifen use or genetic risk assessment counseling

Funding Source: Walther Cancer Research Institute

Project Duration: 12/08/1999 - 12/07/2001

Principal Investigator: Celette Skinner, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator(s): David F. Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.; Victoria Champion, D.S.N., RN; Susan Rawl, Ph.D., RN

Project Title: Evaluation of a Guideline-based Decision Support System

Goal: To evaluate SIEGFRIED in a suitable environment in which computers are integrated into the routine clinical workflow.
Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Project Duration: 09/30/00-09/29/01
Principal Investigator: David Lobach, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Co-Investigator: Kenneth Goldberg, M.D.; John Petersen, M.D.

Project Title: Enhancing Health Literacy through Integration of Health Education Materials with Computer-Based Patient Data Collection

Goal: The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate a program that will enhance health literacy by integrating health education materials into a computer system that collects clinical information directly from patients and accommodates their diverse literacy skills by adapting the human-computer interface.
Funding Source: Pfizer, Inc.
Project Duration: 12/01/1999-11/30/2000
Principal Investigator: David F. Lobach, M.D., Ph.D.

Project Title: Interactive, Guideline-Based Decision Support on the Web

Goals: Project to enhance utilization of clinical practice guidelines through implementation on a World Wide Web-based decision support system that delivers guideline recommendations in an interactive format to the point of care through an electronic medical record system.