Preventive Medicine

NLP-enabled Decision Support for Cervical Cancer Screening and Surveillance - Final Report

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NLP-enabled Decision Support for Cervical Cancer Screening and Surveillance

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This project will create a natural language processing-enabled clinical decision support system to pull patient information from an electronic health record to determine optimal recommendations for screening and surveillance for cervical cancer.

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Project Dates: 
September 30, 2014 to November 29, 2016

Improving Teen Care With Health IT

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This project will develop and test a Web-based Health Assessment (iHA) for adolescents to screen for health risk behaviors, with an aim towards providing prevention and risk reduction counseling.

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Project Dates: 
September 30, 2014 to September 29, 2019

Sharing Patient Lifelog Data With the Primary Care Team for Two Patient Populations: Preventative Care & Chronic Disease Management

Description: 

This project will apply an iterative, user-centered design process to understand the needs and attitudes for sharing patient-collected lifelog data with health care providers in order to improve health care management and decisionmaking.

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Project Dates: 
September 30, 2014 to September 29, 2017

SINC: Synchronized Immunization Notifications

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This project will create and evaluate the impact of immunization reminders using information from an electronic health record combined with an immunization information system.

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Project Dates: 
July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2018

mHealth Delivery of a Motivational Intervention to Address Heavy Drinking Among College Students

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This project will develop and test a smartphone application of an alcohol intervention for college freshmen, adapting a proven intervention for delivery through mobile technology.

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Project Dates: 
July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2018

Clinical Decision Support Optimizing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

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This project will integrate clinical decision support into providers’ workflow in neonatal intensive care units to deliver evidence-based guidelines for early recognition and prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis, a serious complication threatening the life of fragile premature infants.

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Project Dates: 
September 30, 2014 to September 29, 2019

PRISM: Personalized Reminders for Immunizations using Short Messaging Systems

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This study will compare the use of personalized HPV vaccine text message reminders to conventional text message reminders among minority adolescents in a randomized trial.

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Project Dates: 
July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2018

Effect of Electronic Health Record Use on Preventive Screening for Comorbid Medicaid Adults

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This study found increased rates for some screening and preventative services following adoption of federally-certified electronic health records.

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Project Dates: 
July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015

Use of Electronic Personal Health Records as a Health Risk-Reduction Discussion Tool

Description: 

The Electronic Sexual Health Information Notification and Education study examined the use of mobile personal health records (PHRs) among black youth as a risk reduction tool for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and found that they are useful discussion tools for partners.

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Project Dates: 
April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2016