18-12-2012, 12:40 PM
CDC’s Informatics Research and Development Activity (IRDA) and R&D Lab
CDC’s Informatics Research.ppt (Size: 10.78 MB / Downloads: 190)
A resource to CDC and the public health community that studies, prototypes, and tests new and innovative technology-based tools and resources to maximize programmatic public health impact.
Our philosophy is, “Better, faster, low-cost experiments for how technology can improve public health.”
The R&D Lab: History & Current
Physical space created in 2007
Within NCPHI’s Division of Informatics Shared Services
Predominantly a resource for NCPHI
Focused on R&D Activities
Testing and Hosting hardware and software solutions
Responding to Public Health Emergencies
Created with a separate network from CDC
Unit/Activity organized in January 2010
Security C&A in October 2010
Agency resource in October 2010
Lab Services
Applied Public Health Informatics Research Cloud – lab provides 1+ virtual machines for 3+ months, accessed remotely (for free)
Test and profile non-CDC supported software
Community Engagement (UAT, JAD, Social Media)
Open Source Development
Prototype – gain insight by building software to test concepts and refine requirements
Consultation – explore innovation options
Evaluation – structured review of technology for public health audience
IRDA Teams
Research and Innovation Team
Provides consultation; develops guidelines, evaluations, recommendations to CDC & public health community
e.g., evaluating new open source data mining, GIS, and visualization tools
Prototype Development Team
Expertise in hardware and software design and development
e.g., MMWR for iPad , STD Guidelines for iPhone, & web apps….
Laboratory Infrastructure and support team
Develops and maintains secure, dynamic environment in which to experiment and carry out research
(i.e., R&D sandbox hosting, aka…. R&D Lab Research cloud)
Selected Partner Engagements
Chronic Kidney Disease Web Portal Evaluation – NCCDPHP – Pre-release Partner Feedback
Health Statistics Web Presentation Prototype – NCHS – Testing new technology platform
SDN Multi-Platform Certificate Testing – ITSO – Cross-browser testing
Universal Data Collection External User Acceptance Testing – NCBDDD – External UAT
Biosurveillance Registry Alternatives Analysis – PHSPO – Multiple pilots of different software configuration
Arctic Investigations Program Legacy Systems Testing – NCEZID – Dynamic server and client environments