Originally published in The Record, the official newsletter of WashU, on July 22, 2024.
Winners have been chosen in the annual Big Ideas competition.
The competition is jointly sponsored by the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the BJC Healthcare Innovation Lab.
The competition aims to support novel projects that are clinically relevant, technically feasible and operationally sustainable. The program provides an opportunity for collaborative teams to develop innovations in informatics and health-care delivery.
Winning teams could receive up to $50,000 in grant funding. In addition, this year, one team also won an additional $10,000 award from the Patient Safety Technology Challenge.
Congratulations to the Big Ideas competition winners!
2024 – 2025 Awarded Teams
PI / project lead in bold
- Harnessing machine learning for the transition to automated healthcare-associated infection surveillance
- Jonas Marschall, MD, MSc, Andrew Atkinson, PhD, Jordan Shapiro, Lan Luong, David Warren, MD, MPH, Carole Leone, Megan Dethloff, Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH
- Coaching peripheral nerve surgery with mixed reality – the time is now
- Christopher Dy, MD, MPH, Patrick Donohue, MD/MS, Wilson Ray, MD, MBA, Susan Mackinnon, MD
- Machine Learning Assisted Diagnosis of Delirium (ML-ADD)
- Robert Young, MD, MS, Chenyang Lu, PhD, Mark V. Williams, MD, Jing Li, MD, DrPH, MS, David Carr, MD
- Addressing Wait Time Issues in Primary Care
- Nicholas Roth, Marc Lewen, DO, Jennifer Carron, Breanna Fuller, Petra Jackson, Emily Skowron
Patient Safety Technology Challenge
The Harnessing Machine Learning for the Transition to Automated Healthcare – Associated Infection Surveillance team will be awarded an additional $10,000 award from the Patient Safety Technology Challenge. Congratulations to all winning teams!
Learn more about the Big Ideas Competition here.