1. Mission!
The Informatics Discovery Lab (IDL) within the
Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical
Epidemiology (DMICE) at OHSU is a
collaborative environment in which learners,
teachers, and researchers partner with healthcare
delivery organizations, industry, and
philanthropy to solve real-­‐‑world problems. The
aim: use informatics to advance human health,
health care, and biomedical research.
Goals!
§ Foster highly relevant informatics research
focused on deployable solutions to real-­‐‑world
problems
§ Uncover and pursue commercially viable
informatics opportunities and partnerships
§ Accelerate informatics innovation and
deployment
§ Provide partners greater access to a faculty
with broad and deep informatics expertise and
a well-­‐‑trained informatics workforce pool
§ Expand the number and variety of informatics
practicum and internship opportunities
available to students
§ Make available informatics educational
opportunities beyond traditional certificate and
degree programs for current professionals,
members of industry, and others requiring
deeper informatics education and experience
Focus areas!
Aaron Cohen, MD, MS1,4; David A. Dorr, MD, MS1,2;!
Deborah Woodcock, MBA1; William Hersh, MD1; Judith Logan MD1,4;!
Vishnu Mohan MD, MBI1; Robert Schuff MS1; Shannon McWeeney PhD1,3,4,5!
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1Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR!
2Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR!
3Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR!
4Division of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR!
5Division of Biostatistics, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
www.ohsu.edu/IDL!
The Informatics Discovery Lab: a new paradigm for industry-academic collaboration
focused on informatics challenges in health care and medicine!
Background!
The IDL’s mission is to address the major information-­‐‑
related challenges in health care and biomedicine through
strong collaboration with industry and health system
partners.
In the past, much informatics research was built on locally
developed electronic health record (EHR) systems; that
approach limited the generalizability and deployment of
innovation. Historically, collaboration between academia
and industry in informatics has been modest. This has
been a missed opportunity, since academia and industry
have a number of complementary areas of strength and
expertise.
The IDL is structured to enable greater feedback and
shared opportunities between industry and academics.
Collaboration opportunities through the IDL include:
education; simulation; telemedicine; studies of workflow,
management and operation; analytics; evaluation; and
other novel research.
A core principle of the IDL is to treat the emergence of the
commercial EHR as an opportunity and a foundation
upon which to build solutions that solve fundamental real-­‐‑
world problems in healthcare and biomedical research in a
generalizable, deployable, and maintainable manner. A
collaboration with Epic Systems Corporation (Epic)
enables the Lab to use the EpicCare EHR as a platform for
informatics education and research.
Iterative approach!
Current activities
§ IDL Talks, an industry leader guest speaker series
§ Partnership with Epic to expand the use of the EHR for education and research at OHSU
§ Data analytics collaboration with the OHSU Knight Cardiovascular Institute
§ Defining specific collaborative projects with several industry partners in the areas of medical terminology and speech
and language recognition
§ Expanding data analytics education and internship opportunities