This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $1,200,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to develop multimodal techniques to enhance intra- and post-operative learning and coordination between attending and resident surgeons. The key objectives are to: Collect and curate a dataset of up to 100 laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgeries, including surgeons' gaze, operating room...
The federal Project Grant award of R18HS030070 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $800,000 to disseminate a facilitation strategy to de-implement unnecessary post-operative antibiotic use at 20 U.S. children's hospitals. The project aims to adapt an existing evidence-based facilitation strategy, deliver it through virtual workshops to antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) teams...
This $244,306 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of an artificial intelligence-enabled coaching system to enhance surgical teamwork in cardiac operating rooms. Led by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Houston, Texas, the grant aims to design multimodal sensing hardware, data-driven algorithms, and an interface to monitor, assess, and improve collaboration among healthcare...
This $159,255 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to employ a mixed-methods approach to identify social risk factors associated with variation in pre- and post-operative expenditures and outcomes for episodes of renal colic, a common and costly surgical condition. The award to the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
This is a $300,000 EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to design neuro-adaptive technology for robotic-assisted surgery. The grant supports research to monitor surgeons' workload levels, understand the causes of mental overload, and develop interventions using an AI-powered multi-sensing system and context-awareness architecture. The goal is to refine remote surgery techniques to make...
This $4,682,806 federal Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports advanced tele-robotic surgery research for combat casualty care. The University of Illinois, the primary awardee, will conduct research to develop innovative surgical techniques and technologies that enable highly precise robotic-assisted surgical resections without risking injury to critical supporting structures. This work aims to...
This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) is for the "BEDSIDE NOTES: A MULTICENTER TRIAL TO IMPROVE FAMILY CLINICAL NOTE ACCESS AND OUTCOMES FOR HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN" research project. The $800,000 award aims to evaluate the impact of a health IT intervention called "Bedside Notes" that provides parents of hospitalized children real-time access to...
This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will provide $275,000 in funding to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The project aims to develop and test strategies to increase implementation of evidence-based interventions through collaboration with patient advocacy groups in the areas of juvenile idiopathic...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) provides $1,418,716 to develop and validate an artificial intelligence (AI) surgical coaching system designed to enhance surgical performance and patient outcomes during urologic endoscopy procedures. The project aims to utilize machine learning algorithms to model real-life...
This federal Project Grant award for $399,999 from the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will support a multidisciplinary research project at Northeastern University focused on understanding and addressing community health center burden, resiliency, and burnout. The research aims to: 1) Understand the nature, extent, and issues with system resiliency,...