CDC Health Information Innovation Consortium November Forum

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CDC Health Information Innovation
ConsortiumNovember Forum

• Brian Lee

• Chief Public Health Informatics Officer
• Office of Public Health Scientific Services
• Wednesday, November 5, 2014
• 1000-1100am EST
• Chamblee Building 106, Room 1A

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office of Public Health Scientific Services
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Agenda

• Innovation in Surveillance Chesley Richards,
  MD, MPH
• Presentation - Visual Analytics for Discovery
  and Insight NCHS Experience with Data
  Visualization Tools Yinong Chong, PhD
• CDC Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects
  2015 Schedule
• Next Steps Timeline
• Items of Interest
• General Discussion

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2015 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects
Goals

• Identify and accelerate emerging tools and
  approaches to improve public health surveillance.
• Foster and promote creative solutions to
  surveillance challenges faced by CDC public
  health programs and STLT partners.
• Share results and lessons learned across public
  health community.

Reference CDC Surveillance Strategy link
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2015 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects

• Sponsored by OPHSS to support surveillance
  strategy
• Second annual portfolio. 2014 Portfolio
• Portfolio of small projects
• Extensions
• Evaluations Assessments
• Experiments
• Multi-staged projects
• Prototypes / Pilots
• Minimum Viable Products

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2015 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects

• Total portfolio - 250k
• Individual projects - 20-50k
• Flexible project schedules
• Projects last 3-6 months
• Must start before September 30, 2015
• Finish date dependent on project needs
• Independently valuable, but extensible (i.e.,
  accretive)

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2014 and 2015 Project Portfolios Will Overlap

• 2014 Projects started between August and November
  and run on variable schedules
• 2015 Projects may start between March and
  September

2014 Portfolio
2015 Portfolio
today
9/30/2015
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Project Characteristics Requested

• Improve effectiveness or efficiency of existing
  surveillance systems by leveraging emerging
  information technology, and/or novel approaches
• Advance innovation on a specific area related to
• Interoperability and Reuse
• Analysis Visualization
• Standardization Vocabulary
• Data Access Open Data
• Privacy Security

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Project Characteristics Requested

• Explore and answer a distinct question and
  provide validated learning
• if successful, provide insights or tools that can
  be generalized to other surveillance systems or
  activities or
• if unsuccessful, provide lessons learned that can
  be applied to future projects (i.e., failure can
  still be useful)
• Be independently valuable, but extensible (i.e.,
  accretive)

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2015 Process New Features

• Project Proposals can use Informatics Innovation
  Unit resources (developers, product designers)
• Meet with Dr. Savel and IIU team as part of
  proposal design
• Project is designed as an Informatics Lab
  Engagement
• CHIIC Advisory Group project brainstorming
• Selected projects can choose to set up design
  thinking deep dive sessions with advisory group
  to validate, clarify and plan project ideas.
  more info

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Selection Process

• To align projects with center priorities each
  project should first gain approval by
• Supervisor
• Division/Center leadership
• Division/Center Management Official
• Division/Center Associate Director for
  Informatics
• Division/Center Associate Director for Science
• Division/Center Associate Director for Policy
• CHIIC Advisory Group will review projects and
  present recommendation to OPHSS Director

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Project Outputs

• Specific outputs vary depending on nature of
  project
• Upon project completion, each project will share
• Program perspective of problem that is being
  tested
• Context of the project and its stakeholders
• Results and what was learned
• Opportunities for reuse within other programs
• Potential enhancement areas for add-on work

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Timeline

• November 17 Call for Proposals
• December 31 Submissions Due
• February 2 Notification of Award

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More information

• http//intranet.cdc.gov/ophss/chiic.html
• http//www.phconnect.org/group/chiic
• http//www.phconnect.org/group/chiic/page/surveill
  ance-innovation-projects
• 2014 Project Submission Template link
• 2014 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects
  Call for Proposals link

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Next Steps Timeline

• Post an idea or problem to phconnect.org
• Quarterly Forums
• Tuesday, February 10, 2015
• Tuesday, May 12, 2015
• Thursday, August 13, 2015
• Innovation Project Awards
• Presenting results from projects
• 2015 Project Proposals due December 31, 2015
• Email balee_at_cdc.gov or chiic_at_cdc.gov to be added
  to distribution list

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Items of interest

• NSF NITRD Webinar Supporting Data Analytics for
  the Sciences Challenges and Opportunities 11/5
  12-130pmEST link passcodeDatascience12
• NOWCAST Chikungunya in the Americas
  Interactive Charts and Maps on cdc.gov link
• SciComp Training Cluster Computing, Linux
  Various dates _at_Roybal link
• JohnsHopkins / Coursera Training Data Science
  Specialization 9 Online Courses link

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Thank you Questions

• For more information please contact Centers for
  Disease Control and Prevention
• 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333
• Telephone 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY
  1-888-232-6348
• Visit www.cdc.gov Contact CDC at
  1-800-CDC-INFO or www.cdc.gov/info
• The findings and conclusions in this report are
  those of the authors and do not necessarily
  represent the official position of the Centers
  for Disease Control and Prevention.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office of Public Health Scientific Services