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

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 ERC竞赛不需要规划赠款，但旨在培养团队规划融合的中心规模工程研究的能力。通过广泛采用先进技术，包括电子健康记录，移动的设备和传感器以及基因分析方法，我们正在医疗保健领域取得巨大进步。由于这些进步，消费者/患者、临床医生、医疗保健管理人员和公共卫生官员等群体必须在日益丰富的数据环境中做出决策。因此，我们必须通过为不同的最终用户量身定制的精心设计的数据可视化，以可理解和可操作的方式将这些数据呈现给决策者。一个专注于健康数据可视化的ERC可以帮助将这些庞大且不断增长的健康数据转化为有用的、可操作的信息。ERC规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，开发和实施方式，改善医疗保健决策，从而改善健康结果。规划补助金还将允许研究团队开发ERC，通过为不同的学生提供跨学科的思维方式，经验和技能，以加强我们的工程队伍，在快速发展的健康信息技术和数据科学领域工作。在进行规划补助金活动后，我们将能够提交一份具有清晰和凝聚力的10年愿景的战略ERC提案，由来自学术界、工业界和政府的研究人员和利益相关者组成的大型跨学科团队推动。我们还将制定运营结构和程序，以促进长期共享愿景，高效和有效的运营，专业发展机会，高价值的学生培训以及中心活动与不同受众的清晰沟通。规划补助金将涉及研究团队成员之间的持续异步协作，一个面对面的研究团队愿景研讨会和一个为期2天的促进研讨会。研讨会将涉及来自团队成员的跨学科研究人员？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员。该团队还将生成一份总结报告的经验教训，从规划过程中，旨在帮助其他团队谁可能承担大型规划工作在不同的研究领域。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.