Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Health Information Visualization and Exploration (HIVE)

工程研究中心规划奖助金竞赛是作为ERC计划的试点征集活动进行的。计划拨款不是全面ERC竞赛的一部分，而是旨在建立团队之间规划汇聚的中央规模工程研究的能力。通过广泛采用包括电子健康记录、移动设备和传感器以及基因图谱方法在内的先进技术，我们在医疗保健领域取得了巨大进步。由于这些进步，消费者/患者、临床医生、医疗保健管理员和公共卫生官员等群体必须在数据日益丰富的环境中做出决策。因此，我们必须通过为不同最终用户量身定做的精心设计的数据可视化，以可理解和可操作的方式向决策者展示这些数据。一个专注于健康数据可视化的ERC可以帮助将这些海量且不断增长的健康数据转化为有用的、可操作的信息。这项ERC计划拨款将提供一个独特的机会，将来自全国各地的研究人员和利益相关者聚集在一起，系统地规划ERC，通过从根本上改变健康数据可视化的设计、开发和实施的方式，改善医疗决策，从而改善健康结果。规划拨款还将允许研究团队开发一个电子资源中心，通过为具有跨学科思维、经验和技能的不同学生群体提供在快速增长的医疗信息技术和数据科学领域工作的不同群体，从而加强我们的工程队伍。在进行计划拨款活动后，我们将在来自学术界、行业和政府的大型跨学科研究人员和利益相关者团队的推动下，提交一份具有明确和凝聚力的10年愿景的战略电子资源中心提案。我们还将制定具体的运营结构和程序，以促进长期共享的愿景、高效和有效的运营、职业发展机会、高价值的学生培训，以及中心活动与不同受众的清晰沟通。计划赠款将包括研究团队成员之间持续的异步协作、面对面的研究团队展望研讨会和为期两天的促进研讨会。研讨会将有来自团队成员的跨学科研究人员参加？机构和利益相关者社区的成员，包括来自医疗保健提供者组织、技术公司、保险公司和政府机构的人。该团队还将生成一份从规划过程中吸取的经验教训的总结报告，旨在帮助其他可能在不同研究领域进行大规模规划工作的团队。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.We are making tremendous progress in healthcare through the wide adoption of advanced technologies including electronic health records, mobile devices and sensors, and genetic profiling approaches. Because of these advancements, groups such as consumers/patients, clinicians, healthcare administrators, and public health officials must make decisions in increasingly data-rich environments. It is therefore essential that we present these data to decision-makers in understandable and actionable ways, via well-designed data visualizations tailored to varied end users. An ERC focused on health data visualization could help transform this vast and growing amount of health data into useful, actionable information. This ERC planning grant will provide a unique opportunity to bring together researchers and stakeholders from across the nation to systematically plan for an ERC that will improve healthcare decision-making - and therefore health outcome - by fundamentally changing the way health data visualizations are designed, developed, and implemented. The planning grant will also allow the research team to develop an ERC that will strengthen our engineering workforce by providing a diverse group of students with transdisciplinary mindsets, experiences, and skills to work in the rapidly growing health information technology and data science landscapes.After conducting the planning grant activities, we will be positioned to submit a strategic ERC proposal with a clear and cohesive 10-year vision, driven by a large interdisciplinary team of researchers and stakeholders from academia, industry, and government. We will also have operational structures and procedures specified to facilitate long-term shared visioning, efficient and effective operations, professional development opportunities, high-value student training, and clear communication of center activities to diverse audiences. The planning grant will involve continuous asynchronous collaboration between the research team members, an in-person research team visioning workshop, and a 2-day facilitated workshop. The workshop will involve interdisciplinary researchers from the team members? institutions and members of the stakeholder community, including those from healthcare provider organizations, technology companies, insurance companies, and government agencies. The team will also generate a summary report of lessons learned from the planning process, aimed to help other teams who may be undertaking large planning efforts in different research areas.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.