Clinical Informatics and Decision Support

The mission of the Clinical Informatics and Decision Support Core is to innovate solutions leading to personalized, data-driven, and age-friendly care in our community. We seek to leverage information and technology to optimize health care delivery and outcomes for older adults.

Goals of the core

Unifying clinical care, health information technology, and informatics methods to elevate patient care and support health care decision-making
Creating systems that support care coordination and incorporate patient preferences
Developing tools integrated into a learning health system

What we are doing

Empowering providers and geriatric clinics through clinical informatics efforts, including the creation of new alerts, decision support tools, and queries
Supporting the development of age-friendly, accessible, patient-centered tools
Fostering collaboration across departments, schools, and institutions

Future Directions

Remote monitoring and telemedicine for older patients
Precision medicine for aging
Health information exchange for care coordination
Health behavior monitoring and aging in place

Director

Amy Franklin, PhD, is an associate professor and associate dean for student, faculty, and community affairs at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics. She earned her PhD in psychology and linguistics from the University of Chicago before moving to Houston to complete a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University. Joining UTHealth Houston in 2009, Franklin applies her interests in human-centered design, cognition, and communication in health care domains through studies of decision-making, data visualization, human factors, and patient safety. Her interests in aging include supporting patients and providers across their lifespan.