Managed by the NSF CAKE: National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at Florida International, Florida Atlantic, and Dubna International Universities

Steering Committee Chair: Joyce Elam

Director: Naphtali Rishe

FIU HIT Innovations Lab:

The FIU Health Information Technology Innovations Laboratory (HITLAB) will provide HIPAA-compliant infrastructure and services to showcase HIT products and engage affiliated hospitals and ambulatory care physicians in South Florida. The Lab will also provide workbenches for advanced research in the areas of Health Information Exchange (HIE), Data Extraction, Clinical Messaging, Clinical Data Repositories (CDR), Disease Registries, Bio-surveillance, Patient Monitoring, and Patient Communication. Additionally, in order to advance the Translation of Research into Practice (TRIP), the HITLAB will provide the infrastructure to develop clinical data management applications and collaboration tools that aid in the collection, storage, management and analysis of data from multiple sites to support the clinical, biomedical and translational research activities of the FIU PBRN, affiliated academic institutions, and Industry Members of the FIU NSF CAKE Center. The lab is being setup with hardware and software being acquired by the Center or contributed by leading vendors.

Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN):

FIU and the NSF-CAKE hosted the Spring 2010 CONNECT Code-a-Thon organized by the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The event took place April 28th-29th, 2010 in Miami, FL, and was opened by FIU President Mark Rosenberg.

In conjunction with the Connect Code-a-Thon, FIU in partnership with Open Health Tools and the American Academy of Family Physicians National Research Network will hosted:

CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge (PDF brief).

HIE Executive Sessions (PDF brief).

Inter-University Collaborative

We are developing a framework for building an Inter-University Collaborative to advance the EHR Meaningful Use Objectives through academic outreach arms of various organizations such as Open Health Tools. We are in the initial phases of forming such a collaborative starting with CMS Region 4 (which includes the state of Florida). FIU is playing a lead role in exploring various funding opportunity announcements -- ones that can bring together collaborative members as co-applicants -- advancing knowledge sharing and cooperation amongst the members.

Contact:

Naphtali D. Rishe, 305-348-1706

University Park, FIU ECS-243, Miami, FL 33199; FAX: (305) 348-1707

Florida International University (Mark Rosenberg, President, Doug Wartzok, Provost): College of Engineering and Computing (Amir Mirmiran, Dean): School of Computing and Information Sciences (Jai Navlakha, Director): High Performance Database Research Center

Collegial Coordinators:

College of Medicine:	Juan Acuna
College of Business:	Monica Tremblay
School of Computing:	Christine Lisetti