Digital Health Initiative Hosts Special Research Award Event

*Due to the weather forecast, this event has been postponed from its original date of March 13, 2018; it will now take place on Thursday, March 22, 2018.

Join the Hariri Institute for Computing and Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy for a discussion about the current Digital Health Initiative (DHI) research proposal call. The event will include a briefing on the current proposal call, presentations from past DHI award recipients, and a unique networking opportunity.

Thursday, March 22, 2018
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Hariri Institute for Computing
111 Cummington Mall

The event is free, but interested participants are requested to RSVP.

Event speakers include:

• Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, ENG) & George Kasotakis (Surgery, MED) – DHI Research Award recipients
• Honghuang Lin (Medicine, MED) & Rhoda Au (Neurology, MED) – DHI Research Award recipients
• Kate Saenko, PhD, (Director, AI Research Initiative)
• Remarks by Jonathan Woodson (Director, IHSIP) & Azer Bestavros (Director, Hariri Institute for Computing)

The Boston University Digital Health Initiative (DHI) is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy and the Hariri Institute for Computing, two of BU’s university-wide research institutes. As one component of the collaboration, the DHI provides funding to faculty for the pursuit of digital health research projects, with an annual call for proposals.

The current Digital Health Initiative funding call aims to support research that examines the leveraging of technologies and methodologies from computing and data sciences to tackle a range of applications related to healthcare systems, from medical informatics to healthcare delivery and patient activation. Innovations at this nexus of technologies, methodologies, and applications hold great promise for improving the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of healthcare, with significant benefits to the economy and society.

Special consideration will be given to projects that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) approaches in the development, deployment, and assessment of novel digital health solutions. Such approaches can include tools and technologies that draw from computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, robotics, human-computer interaction, or combinations thereof to address critical healthcare and health system needs.

Interested BU faculty are invited to visit the DHI website to learn more about the DHI Research Awards and submit a proposal.

Please sign-up for the DHI mailing list to receive announcements about future opportunities.