Discovery-Driven Decision-Making in Healthcare

Patients and clinicians often face challenges in navigating the overwhelming volume and complexity of health data. The HIVE Lab aims to address this by enabling the discovery of clinically relevant patterns through the automated collection, processing, contextualization, and presentation of data, ultimately empowering better clinical decision-making. In my talk, I will highlight two projects where our team has worked to identify and address stakeholder needs, focusing on exploring, describing, and modeling the processes of data collection and transformation essential for supporting clinical decisions. Dr. Pollack is a pediatric nephrologist at Seattle Children’s and a principal investigator in the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. He is also an Associate Professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. Dr. Pollack earned his MD from Tulane University and completed his pediatric residency at Seattle Children’s. He then became a pediatrician at a private practice and an informatics physician at Seattle Children’s, focusing on ambulatory computerized provider order entry and health information exchange, as well as electronic health record design. Driven to improve health records for patients and doctors, Dr. Pollack earned a master’s degree in information management from the University of Washington. He also went on to complete a fellowship in nephrology at Seattle Children's. His research and lab, HIVE—Health Information and Visualization Experience—focuses on using human-centered design and human-computer interaction principles to support healthcare decision-making and improve patient outcomes. January 21, 2025 The University of Washington is committed to ensuring digital accessibility in our services, programs, and activities. If you encounter accessibility barriers using videos found on this channel, please contact UW Video at uwvideo [at] uw [dot] edu.