In March 2023, OSF HealthCare and Illinois State University signed an agreement to foster research, innovation, and economic development across Illinois. The Connected Communities Initiative (CCI) program was designed to bring clinicians, researchers, and students together to focus on innovation in clinical and patient education, healthcare engineering, data science, and cybersecurity. The following four research projects were chosen to receive support from the program this year:
The EMS-FIRST Initiative: Serving Those Who Serve Us
- Marcel Lopes dos Santos, Ph.D., assistant professor—School of Kinesiology and Recreation, Illinois State University
- Christine Watson, director of Clinical Operations, OSF Life Flight, OSF HealthCare
OSF-ISU SPORT Program–A Connected Community Initiative
- Mike Torry, Ph.D., associate professor—School of Kinesiology and Recreation, Illinois State University
- Karan Rai, M.D., sports medicine, OSF HealthCare Medical Group
Building an OMOP Data Warehouse with GenAI for Data and Research Insights
- Rishi Saripalle, Ph.D., associate professor—School of Information Technology, Illinois State University
- Roopa Foulger, M.S., vice president, Digital Innovation Development, OSF HealthCare
Intelligent Technology for Collaborative Cardiac Diagnosis Using ECG
- Qi Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor—School of Information Technology, Illinois State University
- Sunita Ferns, M.D., MRCPCH (UK), FHRS, CEPS-P director, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Electrophysiology, OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois
