Hear the top finalists deliver their pitch for a chance to transform their idea into reality.

Finalist Project Summaries

• NLP in BPAs
  PI/Project Lead – Philip Asaro, MD | Director, Emergency Medicine Informatics, Applications & Analytics; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
  Test Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to scan ED nursing notes and identify patients eligible for clinical trials to build real-time alerts
• Digital Colonoscopy Navigator
  PI/Project Lead – Juan Reyes Genere, MD | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology
  Create a digital healthcare interface to improve the pre-colonoscopy phase of care by reducing cancellation rates
• Smart Kitchen to Support Independence for People with Subjective Cognitive Decline
  PI/Project Lead – Lisa Connor, PhD, MSOT, OTR/L | Professor, Program in Occupational Therapy
  Use digital recordings and AI to create a smart, assistive system that can recognize cognitive errors and give customized cues in the home
• Assessing the impact of workload on nurse turnover
  PI/Project Lead – Thomas Kannampallil, PhD | Director of Acute Care Innovation Research; Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and the Institute for Informatics; Associate Chief Research Information Officer, School of Medicine
  Assess the contributors to nursing turnover and develop targeted, systems-level interventions to impact turnover rates
• Healthy Link: Integrating Food as Medicine into Inpatient Discharge Process
  PI/Project Lead – Jing Li, MD, DrPH, MS | Associate Professor of Medicine, General Medical Science
  Build pathway to provide healthy food to patients who identify as food insecure by creation of a community-driven food access model
• Using Biomedical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence to Support the Early Diagnosis of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
  PI/Project Lead – Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI | Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery (August 2023)
  Create a predictive model that can successfully identify degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) early and determine the most effective use of this tool clinically
• Integration of Measurement Based Mental Healthcare in Pediatric Primary Care Offices to Address the Mental Health Crisis
  PI/Project Lead – Celina Jacobi, MD | Instructor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Associate Medical Director of the Child Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service, Associate Program Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program
  Imbed a licensed clinical social worker in a pediatric practice to proactively treat mental health reducing wait time for treatment, increase mental health support, and decrease ED visits for crises
• A data-driven approach facilitating patient flow and improving patient outcomes at discharge in the Heart Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
  PI/Project Lead – Lydia Wood, RN, BSN, CPEN | Inpatient Nurse Case Manager – Heart Center – St. Louis Children’s Hospital
  Assess the role of a transition coordinator for pediatric cardiac patients being discharged to home to improve patient discharge planning, communication, and patient/family experience
• Reducing hemolysis and blood culture contamination rates in the Barnes Jewish Hospital Emergency Department through Automated Collector Evaluations (ACEs)
  PI/Project Lead – Mark Zaydman, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor, Pathology & Immunology
  Pilot a web-based application aimed at reducing lab specimen redraws due to hemolysis and contamination by use of an integrated, performance-based educational intervention
• “FAST Stability Project”: Cancer Hospital Care–Facilitating Access through a Safe Test of Stability
  PI/Project Lead – Patricia Litkowski, MD | Assistant Professor and Lead Oncology Hospitalist
  Assess a custom-built tool intended to reduce patient length of stay, increase patient satisfaction and aid clinicians in determining timing of hospital discharge
• Ambient Artificial Intelligence – Enhancing Productivity, Increasing Throughput, and Improving the Patient and Clinician Experience in the BJH ED
  PI/Project Lead – Christopher Palmer, MD, FCCM | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology & Emergency Medicine
  Pilot an AI powered, voice enabled application to reduce clinician documentation time increasing documentation quality and time spent on patient interactions
• Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Medical Student Mental Health with a Tailored Online Therapist-Matching Platform
  PI/Project Lead – Jessica Gold, MD, MS | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  Seek to improve access and utilization of mental healthcare for medical students by testing an online platform that matches patients to therapists