MAINEHEALTH

• THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION

  UEI FLJ7DQKLL226

  $672.6K

  Subcontractor to this prime · 1 sub-award · latest Oct 30, 2024

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • “DR. ROBERT SMITH AND COLLEAGUES AT MAINEHEALTH AND MAINEHEALTH INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH WILL IDENTIFY PATIENTS WITH LYME DISEASE IN THE MAINEHEALTH SYSTEM THROUGH REGULARLY SCHEDULED ELECTRONIC MEDICAL HEALTH RECORD (EPIC) SCANS AND EXTRACT CLINICAL INFORMATION TO PROVIDE DE€Ͽ½IDENTIFIED DETAILS OF DISEASE TO A COMBINED DATA BASE IN CONCERT WITH A COORDINATED APPROACH AT MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL (MGH) AND TUFTSMEDICINE. AGGREGATED DATA WILL BE SHARED WITH RESEARCHERS AT THE FEDERAL CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE HEALTH BURDEN AND OUTCOMES IN OF LYME DISEASE IN OUR HIGHLY ENDEMIC REGION. MAINEHEALTH INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INVESTIGATORS UNDER DR. SMITH€„¢S DIRECTION WILL WORK WITH MGH AND TUFTS TEAMS TO CREATE A UNIFIED AND EFFECTIVE CASE DEFINITION FOR IDENTIFYING PATIENTS WITH LYME DISEASE. DR. SMITH, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE COLLEAGUE DR. STEPHEN RAWLINGS, WILL ASSIST A TRAINED CLINICAL STUDY COORDINATOR IN CASE IDENTIFICATION AND DATA EXTRACTION. DR. SUSAN ELIAS WILL OVERSEE DATA MANAGEMENT AT THE MHIR SITE AND CO€Ͽ½ORDINATE WITH THE TEAMS AT MGH AND TUFTSMEDICINE TO ASSURE STANDARDIZATION. THE FIRST YEAR OF WORK WILL INVOLVE COORDINATED (MGH, TUFTS, MAINEHEALTH) MODEL DEVELOPMENT, VALIDATION, AND DEPLOYMENT AS DESCRIBED IN THE FULL PROPOSAL. WE WILL FIRST CREATE A BASELINE MODEL OF SUBJECTS WHO ARE DIAGNOSED AS HAVING LYME DISEASE BY ICD9/10 CODES. WE WILL THEN WORK TO DERIVE IMPROVED MODELS BY IDENTIFYING INFORMATIVE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FROM CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, MICROBIOLOGICAL AND FREE TEXT DATA IN CASE AND CONTROL VISITS. WE WILL COMPARE THE PERFORMANCE OF ONE OR MORE IMPROVED MODELS AND SELECT THE BEST PERFORMING ONE. WE WILL IMPLEMENT THE SELECTED MODEL FOR RECORD REVIEW AT MAINEHEALTH, SUMMARIZE THE RESULTS, AND AGGREGATE SUMMARY STATISTICS ACROSS SITES. BASED UPON A UNIFIED, EFFECTIVE CASE DEFINITION AND A ROBUST MODEL TO IDENTIFY CASES OF LYME DISEASE FROM EPIC DATA, WE WIL”

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