VigiLens Health Monitor
Laboratory of Knowledge Technology in Biomedicine (KT Lab)
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Overview
• The goal of this University and Hospital project of $2,000,000 is to deliver a decision support system that is server-based, reusable, modular, and enables telemonitoring of clinical repositories.
• Background: Faculty members, developers and trainees of the Dept. have previously established significant
milestones in decision support systems (MYCIN), event monitoring (Clinical Event Monitor), and knowledge representation (Arden Syntax, GLIF). The current Vigilens project builds on this experience and provides additional functionality to the monitoring processes of the NYP hospital.

Research and Development
Biosurveillance: Monitoring outbreaks, syndromes and immunization.
Rx/D: Improving the quality of medication prescribing and use in older persons.
Practice Guidelines for Individualized Medicine: A study of interactions between practice guidelines from heterogeneous sources including dynamic combinations, disambiguation and personalization to a clinical context and users' preferences. Guideline & Object-Class-Viewer, Guideline Interactions Viewer
User's and Organizational Needs: A study of clinical monitoring needs at the NYPH using focus groups and questionnaires.
Novel Relational Database Monitoring exclusively based on internal database triggers, user defined functions and stored database procedures.
Advanced Notification taking into account multiple factors.
Execution of Clinical Practice Guidelines Driven by Semantic Decomposition of Guideline Representation Models.

The Team
Core Faculty
Stephen Johnson (co-investigator), Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Yves Lussier (co-principal investigator), Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Eneida Mendonça (co-investigator), Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Ted Shortliffe (Principal investigator), Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Vimla Patel (co-investigator), Dept. of Biomedical Informatics

Graduate Trainees
Jeeyae Choi, School of Nursing
Te-Hui Kuo, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Matthew Niemark, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Ying Tao, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Dongwen Wang, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics

Core Developers
Dennis Chua, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
R. Nathan Kamasamudram, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Jianrong Li, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics

Affiliated Developers
Alla Babina, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Cynthia Chen, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Tariq Latif, DMI affiliate
Shibu Mathew, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
L. Lyuda Shagina, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
X. Maria Zhang, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics

Affiliated Faculty and Officers
Suzanne Bakken, Center in Evidence Based Practice for the Underserved, School of Nursing and Dept.s of Biomedical Informatics
Mary Cooper, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Jim Cimino, Dept.s of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine
Bruce Forman, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Carol Friedman, Dept. of Biomeical Informatics
Frank Fries, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
George Hripcsak, Dept. of Biomedical Informatics
Desmond Jordan, Dept. of Anesthesiology
Hongfang Liu, Center for Advanced Technology

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