Creating Relevant Longitudinal Patient Histories

Provider at computer Understanding a patient’s medical history is a key part of diagnosis and treatment. Physicians, however, don’t typically have an easy way to sort and filter medical information to find what is most relevant to a patient’s current symptoms. Instead, they start with a patient’s whole health history — from sports injuries, to vaccine records, to kidney care — and then have to manually go through the record to find what is important at that point in time.

Our team is building a tool that Dr. Pollack likens to a map. Currently, patient records give physicians a map of every road in a city. They really only need the roads that will get them from point a to point b — or the data that is relevant to their current health condition, for example, prior kidney care.

The goal of this tool is to help doctors find and process specific health data and get them relevant information more quickly and easily.

Other Projects

Benchmarking and Context for Kidney Transplants

Kidney transplants are a rare procedure. People who need a kidney transplant have often never met anyone else who has had one and don't know if what they are experiencing is typical or not. Our team is working to create a benchmarking tool that aims to help with this.

Kids CoLab: Supporting Collaborative Decision-Making for Adolescents With Kidney Disease

Going from pediatric to adult care can be difficult for many patients. Our goal is to smooth the transition by building a tool that helps patients and physicians make decisions together.

Visualization to Support Patient Prioritization

This software aims to make it easier for doctors to determine the order in which to see hospitalized patients by creating a color-coded circle for each patient and placing them on a grid according to the severity of their condition.