Johns Hopkins University http://www.jhu.edu has collaboratively established the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at the university’s Whiting School of Engineering to bring together engineers, clinicians, and healthcare providers. The aim is to focus on data analytics, systems design and analysis along with technology and devices. Clinician-engineering teams will work together to help speed innovation by integrating their research-based advances with practical applications.
The Center is currently working on:
- Developing a computer game that will help stroke patients recover by using their arms to control the movements of a virtual dolphin
- Developing an algorithm that identifies hospital patients at greatest risk of septic shock. The information in the records of thousands of patients at a hospital were able to predict septic shock before organ dysfunction two thirds of the time
- Drawing intelligent conclusions from biased data and then apply the data analysis to problems in healthcare, medicine, and epidemiology
According to Paul Rothman, Dean of the Medical Faculty, “The relationship between engineering and medicine is woven into the fabric of our schools. It is clear that the juncture of technology and medicine will continue to reshape healthcare and will have an enormous impact on how we diagnose disease, deliver care, and conduct health-related research.”