Georgia Tech team takes top honors in NHIN Coding Challenge
A team of Georgia Tech College of Computing graduate students took the top three awards in the recent NHIN CONNECT Code-a-Thon Challenge in Miami.
Medicity, which sponsored the Georgia Tech team, announced that competing teams in the Code-a-Thon Challenge developed visualization tools that were required to improve display of a patient’s continuity of care document (CCD) for a primary care physician taking calls from patients after office hours. The CCD visualization tools had to interpret and display data error-free on multiple form factors (smart phones, netbooks and full-sized displays) while facilitating patient-physician interaction.
The Georgia Tech team included computer science PhD student Klara Benda and master’s students Adrian Courreges, Monosij Dutta-Roy and Hassan Khan. The team’s honors included:
The technologies will be made available for free download and use through Open Health Tools, an open-source community for health IT, Medicity said.
Medicity, which sponsored the Georgia Tech team, announced that competing teams in the Code-a-Thon Challenge developed visualization tools that were required to improve display of a patient’s continuity of care document (CCD) for a primary care physician taking calls from patients after office hours. The CCD visualization tools had to interpret and display data error-free on multiple form factors (smart phones, netbooks and full-sized displays) while facilitating patient-physician interaction.
The Georgia Tech team included computer science PhD student Klara Benda and master’s students Adrian Courreges, Monosij Dutta-Roy and Hassan Khan. The team’s honors included:
- First place for Problem-Oriented Approach, arranging clinical data by problem so the physician could home in on the patient’s presenting problem.
- Second place for Multi-Context Approach, building a flexible display that enabled the physician to arrange information according to his or her individual “mental model” for handling a particular problem.
- Third place for Rapid Access Approach, providing quick and easy direct navigation across all clinical areas with data in the CCD.
The technologies will be made available for free download and use through Open Health Tools, an open-source community for health IT, Medicity said.