Our Work

Medicaid Waiver Automated Analysis Prototype “Hermes” (2019)

Goal: To develop a web-based tool to automatically download, scan, and analyze a large number of publicly available Medicaid 1115 waiver documents to detect…

Strategic Foresight Automation Prototype “Horizon” (2019)

Goal: To create a tool that provides a systematic way of looking for activities shared on social media platforms that may be relevant to…

Rapid Systematic Literature Review Prototype (2020)

Goal: To create an automated process to help CDC’s Covid Mitigation team analyze and categorize legislation documents more rapidly. The current process is entirely…

COVID-19 Policy Document Classification System (2020)

Goal: To create an automated process to help CDC’s Covid Mitigation team analyze and categorize legislation documents more rapidly. The current process is entirely…

HHS Project Crowdsourcing and Collaboration Portal (2015–2020)

Goal: To provide a structured, secure virtual place where employees and units within HHS could pitch and find projects, provide and find backing, and give-and-receive feedback…

Prototype UMLS REST Service (2015–2020)

Goal: To create a local instance (REST web service) of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) to be used by another Informatics Innovation Unit…

Situational Awareness Dashboard Prototype (2010–2015)

Goal: To develop a high-fidelity mockup prototype for an intuitive situational awareness dashboard for CDC staff and public health partners.   Summary: Successfully completed…

VR Mobile Mine Safety Training Prototype (2010–2015)

Goal: To demonstrate how a mobile device solution can deploy as a portable, convenient, low-cost, high quality, and engaging training experience. Summary: In 2011, the…

PTT Advisor for iOS (2010–2015)

Goal: To develop a mobile app for clinicians to quickly select the appropriate follow-up tests to evaluate patients with a prolonged partial thromboplastin time…

Leveraging Social Media for Flu Surveillance (2010–2015)

Goal: To explore and define the requirements and processes necessary to leverage a social media platform, such as Twitter, to augment influenza surveillance. In…

Public Health Law Information Portal (2017)

Goal: To create a solution to help CDC lawyers efficiently conduct policy surveillance. The current process is manual, time intensive, and prone to error.…

IIU Resource Dashboard (2015–2020)

Goal: To provide the Informatics Innovation Unit (IIU) with an intuitive, real-time, responsively designed, web-based dashboard of IIU’s core resources.   Summary: IIU needed…

Novel Visualization of Health News (2010–2015)

Goal: To create a web-based tool to enable the public health workforce to rapidly scan published health-related news articles.   Summary: HealthNews was a…

CDC Integrated Surveillance Portal (2015)

Goal: To create a full inventory of CDC’s surveillance systems, programs, registries, health surveys, tools, and collaboratives. Summary: A comprehensive, real-time, interactive resource for…

NIOSH Participant Portal

Goal: To electronically deliver personal exposure and medical information to National Institue for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) study participants (workers) in a secure…

Raspberry Pi Remote Temperature Sensor

Goal: To enable the R&D team to have continuous temperature monitoring of the server room (for their R&D Cloud).   Summary: The R&D team…

STD Treatment Guidelines Mobile App (2010–2015)

Goal: To create mobile apps for healthcare professionals and related parties to identify, and treat, sexually transmitted diseases.   Summary: The STD Tx Guide app…

HIV Viral Load Tracking Web Application

Goal: To provide the Global Health HIV team with the design for a web-based application to help clinics in Africa monitor HIV viral load…