The Center for Applied Clinical Informatics (CACI) works with informatics researchers to define and use methods for applying data and information to clinical care. We develop and study innovations in clinical informatics to improve clinical outcomes.

Research Highlights

CACI leads in the research and application of clinical informatics principles to clinical care, and the identification and use of methods for improving health and health care with data and information. As a collection of applied researchers, we collaborate to share discoveries and approaches for applying clinical informatics.

We demonstrate and provide support for various informatics approaches, including:

  • Integrating cognitive and behavioral informatics techniques
  • Clinical decision support
  • Supporting clinical reasoning and workflow
  • Advanced analytics for clinical data
  • Informatics to promote patient safety and quality
  • Supporting care continuity across transitions of both providers and patients
  • Human factors and human-computer interaction analysis
  • Applications of natural language processing
  • Creating and using computable phenotypes
  • Supporting clinicians adapting to health information technology
  • Use of information to support precision care
  • Application of biostatistical and machine learning algorithms to clinical data

Director

Adam Wilcox, PhD, FACMI

Director, Center for Applied Clinical Informatics
Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences

a.wilcox@wustl.edu

Faculty

Joanna Abraham, PhD, FCMI, FAMIA

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

joannaa@wustl.edu

Chih-Hung Chang, PhD

Professor of Occupational Therapy, Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery

chih-hung.chang@wustl.edu

Aditi Gupta, PhD

Instructor in Biostatistics

agupta24@wustl.edu

Mackenzie Hofford, MD

Medical Director of Informatics Core Services
Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of General Medicine School of Medicine

mhofford@wustl.edu

Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Associate Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine

thomas.k@wustl.edu

Albert M. Lai, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA

Deputy Director, Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB)
Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Andrew P. Michelson, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

amichels@wustl.edu

Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN, FACMI, FAMIA, FAAN

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences
Associate Professor, Goldfarb School of Nursing, Barnes Jewish College

yenp@wustl.edu

Additional Affiliated Faculty

Contact

For more information on the Center for Applied Clinical Informatics, please email Alicia Cicerelli at acicerelli@wustl.edu.