Centre for Logic & Information - Seeking Partnership

Project Goals

This project aims to address critical questions (listed above) through research to develop workflow, model checking and verification techniques and incorporate them as critical components into health care informatics systems. These techniques are recognized as the leading edge of mathematical and computer programming necessary for seamless, error-free service and interactions among the numerous computer and database systems used in health care. These techniques will ensure uncompromised patient safety and the highest quality of health care delivery, all delivered cost-effectively.

Research Outcomes

Research outcome products include web-based tools that incorporate model checking and verification which interact with emerging electronic health records technology. This software technology will guide, inform and support case management for public health, improving the efficiency and efficacy of care. This offers immediate value and broad applicability in multiple domains. This will result in improved software functionality over existing products that addresses critical problems currently faced in the health informatics market and other economic sectors.

StFX Research

Top-notch faculty and students have made St. Francis Xavier University the number one primarily undergraduate university in Canada. In the academic strength of our entering students and the performance of faculty in both teaching and research, StFX is second to none. Dr. Wendy MacCaull's multidisciplinary Health Informatics research team draws from the expertise of mathematics, computer science, community health care and nursing and is backed by world-class computing resources and has the ability to leverage industry financing with government research investments. A winning combination available to partnering industry.

Partner Benefits and Opportunities

• Industry partner investment leverages research project of over $3.5M
• Industry access to academic funding available from federal government
• Project infrastructure, researchers, office space, equipment in place
• Unique opportunity to access world class research expertise
• Academic expertise available to address complex industry computing challenges
• First option on new high value IP technology platform developments
• High growth niche market and revenues for research products
  
• Health Authority Partner in place - test bed for new technologies and commercialization
• First year milestone and deliverables met by September 2008
• Access to highly educated students and/or recent graduates that have gained their training in an applied setting thus minimizing the learning curve for industry
• Collaborate in the parellel computing revolution
  

Building Decision Support Systems for Health Care