When Informationists Get Involved: the CHICA-GIS Project

• Main Authors: Elizabeth C. Whipple, Jere D. Odell, Rick K. Ralston, Gilbert C. Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library 2013-05-01
• Series: Journal of eScience Librarianship
• Subjects: Informationist Services
• Online Access: http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol2/iss1/10/
• ISSN: 2161-3974

Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation (CHICA) is a computer decision support system (CDSS) that interfaces with existing electronic medical record systems (EMRS) and delivers "just in time" patient-relevant guidelines to physicians during the clinical encounter and accurately captures structured data from all who interact with the system. “Delivering Geospatial Intelligence to Health Care Professionals (CHICA-GIS)” (1R01LM010923-01) expands the medical application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by integrating a geographic information system with CHICA. To provide knowledge management support for CHICA-GIS, three informationists at the Indiana University School of Medicine were awarded a supplement from the National Library Medicine. The informationists will enhance CHICA-GIS by: improving the accuracy and accessibility of information, managing and mapping the knowledge which undergirds the CHICA-GIS decision support tool, supporting community engagement and consumer health information outreach, and facilitating the dissemination of new CHICA-GIS research results and services.