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The University of Minnesota Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) is Minnesota’s premier resource for health informatics.
We synergize the six schools and colleges of the University’s Academic Health Center into a single, interdisciplinary program of research, graduate education, community engagement, and technology transfer.
Our goal: to improve the ability to access and apply health-related knowledge and information through the use of decision sciences, systems engineering, and related disciplines. Explore this site to learn more.
Dr. Genevieve Melton-Meaux, assistant professor in the department of surgery and faculty fellow in the Institute for Health Informatics was awarded the prestigious American Surgical Association Foundation’s $75,000 annual Fellowship. This fellowship is for a two-year period. Dr. Melton-Meaux will be researching the “Application of Biomedical Informatics Technologies to the Electronic Health Record to Assess Gastrointestial Surgical Patient Outcomes”. This fellowship is awarded to support and encourage gifted young surgeons who the American Surgical Association Foundation sees as having immense potential in investigation and academic surgery.
Professor Julie Jacko was awarded a Research and Research Infrastructure "Grand Opportunities” Grant from the National Institute for Nursing Research titled, “Development of a Consumer Research Network for Studying Obesity”. Professor and School of Nursing Dean Connie Delaney, School of Nursing Professors Bonnie Westra and Martha Kubik,School of Dentistry Professor Jim Fricton, and School of Dentistry Research Associate Dr. Anna Velly are Co-Investigators on the grant. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant funds were awarded in the amount of $1.6 million for a period of two years.
Dr. Stuart Speedie receives the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant
Professor Stuart Speedie was awarded a three year, $1.1 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for the Great Plains Telehealth Resource Assistance Center (GPTRAC). The GPTRAC strives to promote health care services that take advantage of modern telecommunications technologies such as interactive videoconferencing, the secure internet, and home health monitoring.
Genevieve Melton-Meaux, M.D. was awarded an AHC Seed Grant for her grant titled, "Natural language processing of A use case of medical text-mining in community-based care documentation" in the amount of $24,243. Other individuals on the grant are Bonnie Westra (Co-PI), Madeleine Kerr and Karen Monsen (Co-Is).
The proposed research seeks to characterize the content and use of text in relationship to standardized Omaha System terms for signs and symptoms and for interventions in several community care settings. The investigators propose to use medical natural language processing (NLP), refine NLP techniques for community care documentation, and formally evaluate the NLP system.
