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Automatic Generation of Computer Interpretable Guidelines

Award Number: R15LM013030
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/11/2018
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2023

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Automatic Generation of Computer Interpretable Guidelines - PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Compliance with clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) has been demonstrated to markedly improve patient care, but the tools and processes available for physicians to rapidly and meaningfully leverage these guidelines are currently sub-optimal. Compliance improves greatly with the introduction of clinical decision support systems (CDSS), which implement guideline recommendations and are integrated into electronic health record (EHR) systems. Unfortunately, CPGs, as commonly distributed, contain recommendations for care of only a single disorder (or class of disorders) and are not easily consumable by computers for integration with CDSS. Recent work has focused on methods to resolve conflicts between guidelines, but only once they are in a computer interpretable form - a Computer Interpretable Guideline (CIG). We aim: to (1) develop a system for computational understanding of CPGs from the unstructured text; (2) to ground the clinical terms in each guideline in its definition so that the produced CIG can better integrate with electronic health record systems; (3) to generate CIGs in a format already developed which allows guidelines to be mediated with each other and allows the creation of CDSS. The project will focus on four clinical guidelines, relating to diabetes, heart disease, non-small cell lung and prostate cancers. Samples of each of the guidelines will be annotated by clinicians with the appropriate output of systems accomplishing each of the three aims. These samples will be split into datasets for testing and for evaluation, with the overall goal to achieve human levels of competence for each aim.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = -$123,922 )
2024	2018	THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	7060 STATE RTE 104	OSWEGO	NY	13126	OSWEGO	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	1	10/1/2023	NEW	-$123,922
														Subtotal = -$123,922

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2022	2018	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	7060 ROUTE 104	OSWEGO	NY	13126	OSWEGO	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	1	8/8/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $325,760 )
2018	2018	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	7060 STATE ROUTE 104	OSWEGO	NY	13126	OSWEGO	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	1	9/11/2018	NEW	$325,760
														Subtotal = $325,760

Grand Total All Awards = $201,838

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Automatic Generation of Computer Interpretable Guidelines

Award Number: R15LM013030

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/11/2018

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2023

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