The Healthcare Innovation Program Office (HIPO) provides strategic alignment and coordination across NCSA’s health projects and initiatives, connecting them with related research across the University of Illinois and supporting the University’s mission in health and wellness. The objective is to provide powerful methods, tools and ecosystems for translational research and innovation in support of the advancement of health sciences and healthcare. These broadly include software development, user experience design, AI/ML, data analysis and visualization, and cyberinfrastructure.
Adding to NCSA’s legacy of healthcare innovation, this program office forges new relationships with clinical, academic, and industry partners. Project highlights include:
- Development of a custom generative AI chatbot for life science applications
- Providing HIPAA-compliant cyberinfrastructure and user support for clinical partners and researchers
- Accelerating the genomic processing pipeline to reduce turnaround time for patient genetic tests
- Developing software for executing AI approaches on biological and patient data and studying results through novel visual techniques
- Creating workflow systems to perform image annotation and deep learning analysis on pathology images
- Implementing applications and cyberinfrastructure to support the management of COVID-19 testing
HIPO looks forward to enabling the next advancements that will transform lives.
Questions about NCSA’s work in health sciences?
Colleen Bushell
Director, Healthcare Innovation Program Office
cbushell@illinois.edu
217-244-1060
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