| Grand Challenge | Submitter | Email | Example Link | Date |
| Automatically mapping all the widely varied and irregular vocabularies used in operational clinical system to clinical standard vocabularies | J. Marc Overhage | moverhage@regenstrief.org | http://www.loinc.org/ (RELMA is a start) | 10 2 2004 |
| Creating an intelligent interace for clinicians that allows them to intermix observations (document) and orders with the system identifying orders, requesting required information to complete them and providing clinical decison support in an unobtrusive and effective fashion | | | | 10 2 2004 |
| Demonstrate significant gain in hospital market share and profitability as a result of an EMR | Jim McCord | jjm542@pacbell.net | | 10 2 2004 |
| The Genome to Phenome Link | Patricia Abbott | pabbott2@son.jhmi.edu | | 10 2 2004 |
| Better articulation of the differentiation of bioinformatics and healthcare/biomedical informatics. | Patricia Abbott | pabbott2@son.jhmi.edu | http://www.nihroadmap.nih.gov/ | 10 2 2004 |
| Develop an information infrastructure for clinical research that interoperates with electronic medical records, reduces redundant data entry, improves efficiency and reduces cost of research | Stephen Johnson, PhD | sbj2@columbia.edu | http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinicalresearch/index.asp | 10 2 2004 |
| Establish a scientific foundation for biomedical informatics that blends formal/mathematical models with empirically established theories of information systems and the organizations that use them; educate a critical mass of professionals in this discipline; apply scientific principles and theories when constructing practical systems | Stephen Johnson, PhD | sbj2@columbia.edu | | 10 2 2004 |
| Develop models of clinicians' and patients' clinical information needs (both recognized and unrecognized), and approaches for meeting the most important needs in a manner that improves care process, outcomes and satisfaction for all stakeholders. | Jerry Osheroff | jerry.osheroff@thomson.com | | 10 2 2004 |
| Solid, credible, and transportable evidence of the positive economic (productivity) impacts of information and communications systems in the health sector | D. Covvey | dcovvey@uwaterloo.ca | http://hi.uwaterloo.ca | 15 2 2004 |
| Create a process and specification for derivation, creation and dissemination of clinical knowledge in a computer and human interpretable format. Provide for it's on-going review and support for delivery in a platform agnostic manner. q.v. Dr. Bates and Lincoln. | Kevin Coonan MD | | www.sageproject.org http://www.smi.stanford.edu/projects/intermed-web/guidelines/ | 17 2 2004 |
| A Personal Health Record that can be used as a medium to exchange health information among various provider EHRs | Danny Sands, MD, MPH | dsands@bidmc.harvard.edu | http://www.connectingforhealth.org/ | 17 2 2004 |
| Interoperable and Collaborative health organizations enabled through policies and Pervasive Information Technology that fundamentally transform processes & transactions (including medical records, medical education, alerting etc.). Pervasiveness: "availability, effectiveness, accessibility and tracktability". | Yves A. Lussier | lussier@dbmi.columbia.edu | http://www.medbiq.org/ | 3 3 2004 |
| Develop metrics for comparing medical information systems against one another on a validated standardized scale of important attributes (e.g, clinical utility, human factors, etc). This will improve the generalizability, and thus the quality, of medical informatics research, and will enable controlled studies rather than simply case reports. | Wayne Brandes, DO MPH | wbrandes@air.org | | 3 3 2004 |
| Developing standardized EMR "cockpit views" for defined clinical settings thereby minimizing error and decreasing training requirements. | David Liebovitz, MD | DavidL@northwestern.edu | | 16 3 2004 |
| obtain funding for health IT. There is a strong need to galvanise politicians in a similar way to what has occurrred in teh UK to adequately fund health IT in teh public health sector in teh mixed model health systems of much of the world. The challenge is to do that... | Tony Sara | saraa@sesahs.nsw.gov.au | | 22 3 2004 |
| Standards based workflow management in high velocity medical care | Jeff Sutherland | jsutherland@patientkeeper.com | http://www.tatrc.org/website_orfuture/two/ | 22 3 2004 |
| Developing a principled, normative, approach to determining which clinical data elements must be captured in structured and coded form, and creating a HCI using this information in an adaptive manner to create 'just-in-time' and 'just-right' clinical documentation tools for providers (and possibly patients). | Blackford Middleton, MD | bmiddleton1@partners.org | http://www.partners.org/cird | 22 3 2004 |
| Dean Sittigs projector request? | Tom Morgan | news.editor@hisa.org.au | http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/05/1081017089222.html | 7 4 2004 |
| Communicating statistical and decision models to stakeholders in a manner that they understand and can modify with assurance | Harold Lehmann | lehmann@jhmi.edu | | 20 4 2004 |
| Giviing patient activeness to participate, make medical culture and making their health community group by themselves. And redifining the roles of medical/health informatics technology as help them do their own medical activity | Jaeung Moon, MHA | webmaster@podbank.net | www.podbank.net | 1 5 2004 |