Big Ideas: Winners Announced

Sponsored by the Healthcare Innovation Lab (the Lab) and Washington University Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I²DB), the Big Ideas competition was created to identify and support high-priority, novel projects from collaborative clinical, operational and research teams that are developing innovations in informatics and health care delivery. The competition was judged by leadership of BJC HealthCare and Washington University School of Medicine including Drs. John Lynch, Karen Mullis, Elizabeth Peek, Tommye Austin, Vicky Fraser, and Michael Avidan. Drs. Thomas Maddox (Healthcare Innovation Lab) and Philip Payne (I²DB) would like to thank Drs. Hilary Babcock, Sunny Lou, Adam Wilcox, and Paul Kerby for their assistance in reviewing the finalists’ applications.

Each of the four winning teams listed below will be awarded a grant of $50,000 in research funds.

We are also pleased to announce that the Harnessing Machine Learning for the Transition to Automated Healthcare – Associated Infection Surveillance team will be awarded an additional $10,000 award from the Patient Safety Technology Challenge. Congratulations to all our winning teams!

PI / project lead in bold

• Harnessing machine learning for the transition to automated healthcare-associated infection surveillance
  • Jonas Marschall, MD, MSc, Andrew Atkinson, PhD, Jordan Shapiro, Lan Luong, David Warren, MD, MPH, Carole Leone, Megan Dethloff, Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH *Dr. Babcock recused herself from reviewing this application*
• Coaching peripheral nerve surgery with mixed reality – the time is now
  • Christopher Dy, MD, MPH, Patrick Donohue, MD/MS, Wilson Ray, MD, MBA, Susan Mackinnon, MD
• Machine Learning Assisted Diagnosis of Delirium (ML-ADD)
  • Robert Young, MD, MS, Chenyang Lu, PhD, Mark V. Williams, MD, Jing Li, MD, DrPH, MS, David Carr, MD
• Addressing Wait Time Issues in Primary Care
  • Nicholas Roth, Marc Lewen, DO, Jennifer Carron, Breanna Fuller, Petra Jackson, Emily Skowron

Learn more about the Big Ideas competition at https://bigideas.med.wustl.edu/