Tools for Complex Clinical Decision-Making

SHARPC Leaders:  Trevor Cohen

In SHARPC-2A we are primarily concerned with the development of a cognitive support system that can assist physicians in their decision-making tasks. Specifically, we are interested in

• Capturing, understanding and analyzing the nature and structure of expert clinician knowledge concerning commonly occurring diseases using human-intensive and semi-automated methods
• Developing service-oriented architecture for flexible medical data retrieval, intelligent knowledge organization and presentation for efficient clinical decision-making

Related to this, we are also investigating clinical information seeking practices and alternative mechanisms for intelligent information presentation in clinical contexts.

 Product

• SIRSi: A prototypical Cognitive Support Application to Clinical Decision Making in relation to diagnosing and treating Sepsis. For installation instructions, please click here. Contact Trevor Cohen for details.

 Publications

• Kannampallil TG, Franklin A, Mishra R, Almoosa KF, Cohen T, & Patel VL. Understanding the nature of information seeking behavior in critical care: Implications for the design of health information technology. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 2012.