The Climate Change and Health Gateway (CCHG) for Enhancing Biomedical, Health, an

Lumenetec，LLC的气候风险分析部门提议开发气候变化和健康网关（CCHG），这是一种创新和突破性的软件工具，将从根本上增强生物医学，健康和气候变化信息学。CCHG将通过在基于GIS的平台上提供气候变化对健康影响的关键量化信息，增强公共和私营部门决策者的能力。拟议的技术将使非技术决策者能够系统地利用高端全球气候模型（GCM）模拟的结果，以了解，预测和应对气候变化对健康的影响。CCHG将支持国家医学图书馆的使命，即通过显著增强其与环境健康、健康服务研究和公共健康相关的信息服务，实现生物医学研究、支持医疗保健和公共健康以及促进健康行为。因此，从公民个人到区域和国家政府的决策者将能够自信地制定缓解和适应战略，以减少气候变化对人类健康的不利影响。Lumenetec提出的CCHG技术将通过提高对气候变化对人类健康不利影响的认识而使整个公众受益。在第一阶段，Lumenetec建议与来自学术界、工业界和地方政府的专家团队合作：1）进行需求分析; 2）设计和建造CCHG原型; 3）使用真实的数据证明CCHG的可行性; 4）计划第二阶段计划。在第二阶段，Lumenetec将在第一阶段原型的基础上进一步开发CCHG，从而开发出稳定、用户友好的商业产品。此外，Lumenetec将在第二阶段启动客户试点计划，并将在第一阶段确定的众多气候变化利益相关者中积极商业化CCHG。该计划将产生一个完整的交钥匙解决方案，使健康影响评估社区的各个利益相关者能够利用全球气候模型当前和未来长期模拟的结果，对气候变化的健康影响进行定量评估。 公共卫生相关性：Lumenetec的气候变化和健康网关（CCHG）将从根本上加强气候变化，生物医学和健康信息的整合，从而为特定人群，地点或健康状况提供气候与疾病之间关系的更完整的画面。此外，CCHG将允许用户合并来自许多来源的数据，并挖掘数据，以发现，可视化和测试有关气候对特定疾病或人群影响的假设。因此，CCHG将通过向从公民个人到区域和国家政府的决策者提供关键信息来了解，预测和应对气候变化的不利健康影响，从而使整个公众受益。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Climate Risk Analysis Division of Lumenetec, LLC, proposes to develop the Climate Change and Health Gateway (CCHG), an innovative and ground-breaking software tool that will radically enhance biomedical, health and climate-change informatics. CCHG will empower decision-makers in both the public and private sectors by providing critical, quantitative information of the health impacts of climate change in a GIS-based platform. The proposed technology will enable non-technical decision makers to systematically leverage the outputs of high-end Global Climate Model (GCM) simulations for understanding, predicting and responding to the health impacts of climate change. CCHG will support the National Library of Medicine's mission of enabling biomedical research, supporting health care and public health, and promoting healthy behavior by significantly enhancing its information services relevant to environmental health, health services research, and public health. Therefore, decision-makers from individual citizens to regional and national governments will be able to confidently formulate mitigation and adaption strategies in order to reduce the adverse effects of climate change on human health. Lumenetec's proposed CCHG technology will benefit the public as a whole by increasing awareness of the adverse effects of climate change on human health. In the Phase I, Lumenetec proposes to work with a team of experts from academia, industry, and regional governments to: 1) conduct a needs analysis; 2) design and build a CCHG prototype; 3) demonstrate the feasibility of CCHG using real data; and, 4) plan for the Phase II program. In the Phase II, Lumenetec will build on the Phase I prototype to further develop CCHG, resulting in a stable, user-friendly, commercial product. In addition, Lumenetec will launch a client pilot program in the Phase II and will aggressively commercialize CCHG among the numerous climate change stakeholders identified in the Phase I. This program will result in a complete, turnkey solution that will enable the various stakeholders of the health impact assessment community to leverage the outputs of current and future long-term simulations of Global Climate Models for the quantitative assessment of the health effects of climate change. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Lumenetec's Climate Change and Health Gateway (CCHG) will radically enhance the integration of climate change, biomedical, and health information, thereby providing a more complete picture of the relationships between climate and disease for specific populations, locations, or health conditions. In addition, CCHG will permit users to merge data from many sources and to mine the data for discovering, visualizing, and testing hypotheses about the climate effects on particular diseases or population groups. As a result, CCHG will benefit the public as a whole by providing decision makers from individual citizens to regional and national governments with critical information for understanding, predicting and responding to the adverse health impacts of climate change.