The 11th Annual Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium brought together clinicians and researchers from OSF HealthCare, The University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The event titled, “Transformation through Teamwork: Uniting Patient and Clinician Views” was held at Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center on October 30.
John Vozenilek, MD, FACEP, vice president and chief medical officer for innovation and digital health at OSF HealthCare, and Jim Rehg, PhD, director of Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, welcomed attendees to the symposium by reminding them that together, they are shaping the future of health care for the better.
Following the welcome, presentations were made by the OSF Faculty Fellows highlighting their recent work.
Abigail Woolridge, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign gave an overview of ongoing work focused on improving maternal health, with a specific focus on maternal hemorrhage.
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee, PhD, a health innovation professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, provided an evaluation of the Digital Hospital at Home program.
Next, presentations were given on Phase 2 Project spotlights.
Ann Willemsen-Dunlap, CRNA, PhD, director of educational development at OSF HealthCare, presented “Implementation of Health Access Points Within OSF’s Rural Health Ecosystem.”
Adam Cross, MD, FAAP, an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics with the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, and Children’s Innovation lab lead for OSF Innovation, presented “AutoRD: An Automatic and End-to-End System for Rare Disease Knowledge Graph Construction Based on Ontology-enhanced Large Language Models.”
Clinical stories and a panel followed the Phase 2 presentations. Sharing clinical stories and participating in the panel were:
- Brandi Clark, vice president of Digital Care for OSF OnCall.
- Charles J. Aprahamian, MD, FAAP, FACS, a pediatric general surgeon for the OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois.
- Daniel J. Robertson, MD, a pediatric general surgeon for OSF HealthCare.
To conclude the Symposium, the poster award winner was announced. The poster award was voted on by attendees throughout the symposium. The winning poster was titled “SEEG4D: An Open-Source Tool for Visualization of SEEG Seizure Data.” Matthew Bramlett, MD, associate professor of pediatrics with the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, and pediatric cardiologist with OSF HealthCare, and Brad Sutton, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, were the primary investigators who allocated the award to James Evans who worked as a graduate student supporting the project.
The JUMP Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (ARCHES) program is a strategic collaboration with the Health Care Engineering Systems Center (HCESC) of The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Urbana-Champaign that partners teams of clinicians and engineers working together to improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.