Center for Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics (CAB)
Dr. Khurshid is the founding Director of the Center for Excellence at Harvard’s Department of Population Medicine, with the mission to conduct and promote impactful artificial intelligence and biomedical informatics research with practical and generalizable real-world implementations that focus on improving population health and efficiency.
FHIRedApp
FHIRedApp is a patient-facing mobile platform portal based on FHIR data standards (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) to facilitate direct patient involvement in clinical care and research. Patients can review and share all their medical and social data through their mobile phones in a secure and HIPAA-compliant environment. Khurshid A, Oliveira E, Lakshminarayanan, Abrol V. FHIRedApp: A LEAP in health information technology for promoting patient access to their medical information.
Building a Social and Health Information Platform (SHIP) in Central Texas
Designing a standards-based, data platform that links and displays patient-level and community-level data from across sectors into job-specific visualizations and alerts. SHIP works with Connxus, a Health Information Exchange (HIE), and has shown an impact on readmissions in a pediatric population.
Establishing a National HIE Research Network (HIERN)
Work with HIE leaders from across the country to establish a national network of HIEs by using data standards, technical innovations, and legal and regulatory solutions. The distributed data network is a unique and newly available resource for EHR-based and SDOH data for population health studies and public health surveillance.
SHIP: Social and Health Information Platform
As much as 90% of our overall health is determined not by clinical factors, but by social, behavioral, and environmental factors – also known as social determinants of health (SDoH)
FHIRedApp: Leading Edge Acceleration Projects
Getting access to one’s own health records can be difficult – often your health record is fragmented, with different pieces of it held by different providers, and there is typically a lengthy “authorization to release” process that involves paper forms…
Connxus: Central Texas Health Information Exchange
The Connxus (formerly ICC, the Integrated Care Collaboration) is the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the Greater Austin/Central Texas area. HIEs organize and store electronic health information of patients across multiple providers and hospitals in one place, allowing doctors, pharmacists, EMTs and other providers to access a more complete record of patients’ medical information in a quick, secure, consistent, and cost-effective manner.
MediLinker: A Blockchain-based Identity Management System
Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain a patient’s highly sensitive private information, including personally identifiable information and their healthcare records. However, these EMRs are created, maintained, and stored across multiple hospitals and healthcare providers, creating “data silos” and fragmented EMRs…
Texas Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Our research on pediatric blood lead prevention is a collaborative effort between the Texas Department of State and Human Services Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (TX CLPPP), the Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School, and the Moody College…
Breathe Austin: A Real-Time SDOH Data Visualization Tool
Breathe Austin was designed as a pilot study to assess feasibility of creating a real-time SDoH data visualization portal presented in the EHR at the point of care, specifically for the care of pediatric asthma.