Reworking Visualizations and Analytics for Medical information Prioritization (REVAMP)
Navy SBIR FY2015.1


Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.1
Topic No.: N151-069
Topic Title: Reworking Visualizations and Analytics for Medical information Prioritization (REVAMP)
Proposal No.: N151-069-0200
Firm: Charles River Analytics Inc.
625 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Contact: James Niehaus
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Abstract: DoD medical personnel across all levels and systems of care-including doctors, nurses, and combat medics-are becoming inundated with medical data and information. These personnel need systems that help them integrate and reason over this ever-expanding collection of medical information. These systems must provide support to triage, treat, evacuate, and return Warfighters to duty in the most efficient manner possible. To address this need, we propose to design and demonstrate the feasibility of Reworking Visualizations and Analytics for Medical information Prioritization (REVAMP), an open and extensible system for medical data analytics and visualization. REVAMP features: (1) a secure software bridge and readily extensible application programming interfaces (APIs) to share data among existing and evolving medical information systems; (2) efficient analytics that create actionable information out of medical data, implemented with Charles River's proven, open-source FigaroT probabilistic programming environment; and (3) a cross-platform visualization "mashup" interface to flexibly summarize and present medical information, implemented in the Unity rendering engine for efficient execution and cross-platform deployability. All three of these components are designed to enable rapid modification to adapt to new data sources, analytics, and visualizations as well as evolving medical practice and organizational changes.
Benefits: We expect the full-scope REVAMP system, as well as its individual analytics and visualization mashup system components, to have immediate and tangible benefit for a number of military and Navy medical programs. The DoD is one of the largest healthcare organizations in the nation, and therefore has significant interest in more effective and efficient healthcare across the spectrum of services. In particular, REVAMP will help enable more responsive and more targeted medical treatment thereby reducing information overload and enabling more data to be incorporated into treatment decisions. In addition to military medicine, we will extend these benefits to civilian medical infrastructure under commercialization efforts.

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