Researchers interested in building technologies that save lives and
can change the future of healthcare are encouraged to apply for
opportunities within the Microsoft Medical Media Lab (M3 Lab) in
Washington D.C.
The M3 Lab is an active, enthusiastic, energetic lab dedicated to
Healthcare Concept Development. Projects span a wide range of
advanced technologies including: ultra wideband tracking and RFID,
data visualization, search in healthcare, communications, surface
computing, augmented and virtual reality, and robotics.
M3 Lab researchers can split their time between Microsoft’s
headquarters in Redmond, Washington and also the nation’s capital in
Washington D.C. After researching the latest technologies on the
campuses of Microsoft Research, researchers deploy their
technologies into live clinical care at leading hospitals in the
nation located in Washington D.C..
Researchers have the opportunity to see their technology make a
difference in patient's lives. Opportunities are available
year-round, range from 3–6 months, and include funding for travel,
housing, software and hardware, and a stipend.
Here are a few current Healthcare Concept Development areas:
Medication
Reconciliation
Today, hospitals have great
difficulty capturing the list of medications from a person as they
enter a hospital and successfully reconciling the medications as
they leave — so nothing is forgotten. Changes in doses, routes, drug
classes and formulations are difficult to semantically correlate.
Design and apply the optimal technologies to help hospitals solve
the important medication reconciliation challenge.
eDocumentation
50% of a nurse's day is spent
entering data into computers. New technologies abound to capture
digital information. Create the optimal design for software to
capture data from healthcare workers who are using keyboards, mice,
Ink, Speech, or all in tandem.
Automated Care Team Identification
Nurses, residents, medical students,
consultants and clinicians change shift in hospitals every 8–12
hours. Not only is it difficult for patients to keep track of the
names of all of these individuals — but care teams and providers
rarely know who or where these individuals may be as well. Build
optimized algorithms to automatically identify care team members to
share with families, and the care team, based from access data in
the EMR.
Surface Computing
Microsoft Surface technology has opened new
opportunities for collaborative exploration and knowledge sharing.
Build collaborative data visualization and interaction tools on this
exciting new platform to enhance delivered care.
Web 2.0 in the Healthcare Enterprise
Web 2.0 has been described (by some) to mean
the emergent benefits gained when users become not only consumers of
content, but collaborative creators of content as well. Build new
social networks to harness the collaborative, creative powers of the
members of the healthcare enterprise to collectively improve the
quality of delivered care.
Enterprise Healthcare Search
Apply Web-type search technologies to
data-cores within the hospital enterprise to meet knowledge and
informational needs that previously could not be met.
Augmented Reality
Healthcare is one of the few fields where the
placement of timely ambient knowledge can save lives on a routine
basis. The use of "Data Lenses" and other forms of Augmented Reality
have the potential to infuse the very fabric of a hospital with data
that can save lives. Design and build the "data lenses" that can
serve as windows into worlds of ambient clinical knowledge.
Communications
Critical to clinical care is rapid, effective
communication. Build technologies to unify and optimize
communication technologies, such as e-mail, voicemail, VoIP, instant
messaging, white-boarding, collaborative case review, and
intra-hospital teleconferencing.
RFID in Healthcare
The M3 Lab MidAtlantic testbed hospital in Washington D.C. is the
world's largest civilian deployment of ultra wideband tracking
technology. Build technologies to demonstrate how tracking
technologies can make a difference in patient's lives.
Ultra-Scale Displays in Healthcare
Large video displays are rapidly dropping in price. Within a
decade, wall-sized displays could be common across healthcare. Build
the display interfaces that will span the walls of the healthcare
enterprises of the future.
Full Media Encounter Capture
Providers spend vast amounts of time documenting encounters with
patients. Capturing audio or video data using technologies like
SenseCam throughout a clinician's day could replace the onerous
documentation requirements driving up costs and draining
efficiencies in healthcare. Design the systems to ubiquitously and
automatically capture the audio and video encounters of patients in
the hospital.
Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
Gartner estimates 80% of data in healthcare is unstructured.
Extracting structured data from unstructured data is considered the
"next" important development that could dramatically impact the
quality of delivered care. Build and apply NLP tools to solve data
extraction and meta-tagging challenges across enterprise healthcare.
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