Digital Health's Moment:
Technology Leads through the Pandemic

2020 Annual Report

Letter from Leadership

The Johns Hopkins Medicine Technology Innovation Center leads change in patient care by collaborating with internal and external partners. Our Annual Report highlights how we met the challenges that arose from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in support of patients, students, faculty, and staff. But COVID-19 was not the only headline of 2020. We still carried out our leadership program for analysts, innovated in precision medicine and digital health, and ran another cohort of our medical software accelerator program.

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Response to COVID-19

Technical Leadership During the Pandemic

The Technology Innovation Center sprang into action in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. From initial quick fixes to a more comprehensive approach bringing solutions together under a single umbrella, the TIC teams offered their technical, design, analytic, and project management expertise to the Johns Hopkins enterprise.

Featured Case Studies

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Re-imagining a User-Centered Web Portal Experience

MyJH Portal Redesign

MyJH is an internal web portal used by all Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty, staff, and students to access Johns Hopkins-related online tools, resources, and applications. Through user interviews and feedback, the TIC team worked to rebuild and redesign a more user-centered MyJH.

1,335
insights gathered to enhance
the user experience

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Simplifying Complex Radiation Treatment Planning

Oncospace

Oncospace is a Johns Hopkins-based, data-driven radiation oncology software start-up that builds radiation treatment planning tools based on artificial intelligence and clinical experience. The TIC design team worked with Oncospace to redesign their auto-planning workflow to create a clearer, stepwise process.

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David Murray, Ph.D

Chief Technology Officer

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Peter Hoban, Ph.D

VP of Product Strategy

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Pranav
Lakshminarayanan

Chief Architect

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Tyler Smith

Web Developer

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Michael Bowers

Director of Product
Development

45
clinical auto-plans
evaluated in study

Improving Clinical Care through Data Visualization

Patient Insight

Patient Insight is a portal for patient data visualization designed and developed by the TIC to improve clinical care experience. Clinicians using Patient Insight observe patients' health status over time and better understand their progress. This tool, accessible through Epic, also helps clinicians improve communication with their patients.

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Peter Arthur
Calabresi, M.D.

Director, Division of
Neuroimmunology
Professor of Neurology

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Ellen Mowry, M.D.

Professor of
Neurology

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Ami Shah, M.D.

Co-Director, Johns Hopkins
Scleroderma Center
Associate Professor of
Medicine

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Laura Hummers, M.D.

Clinical Director,
Division of
Rheumatology,
Associate Professor
of Medicine,
Co-Director,
Scleroderm Center

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Christopher Anthony
Mecoli, M.D., M.H.S

Assistant Professor
of Medicine

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Lisa Christopher-Stine,
M.D., M.P.H

Associate Professor
of Medicine and Neurology,
Director, Myositis Center

16,887
patients' data collected

Precision Medicine Initiative

Initiatives

Precision Medicine

Advancing Patient Care through Clinical Data

The inHealth Precision Medicine team worked with the Johns Hopkins Core for Clinical Research Data Acquisition (CCDA) to produce a COVID-19 data registry. The TIC provided infrastructure support to the CCDA for tools such as the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model and ATLAS, which harmonize disparate data sources to facilitate multi-institution research on COVID patients. The Precision Medicine Portal expanded to become a one-stop resource for the inHealth community. The Precision Medicine Analytics Platform (PMAP) Discovery Platform was also expanded, allowing researchers to bring their data together in a centrally managed location and access data sets through modern analytical tools. There are now 17 Precision Medicine Centers of Excellence (PMCOE).

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~2.5M
patients' Epic data converted
into the OMOP common data model

Chesapeake Digital Health Exchange (CDHX)

Leveraging Digital Health’s Rapid Expansion

Chesapeake DHX is a regional economic development effort co-organized by the Technology Innovation Center and Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. In 2020 the Chesapeake DHX hosted a series of virtual Digital Health Huddles that featured local start-up leaders, a pitch event, and virtual trivia game. The initiative also co-hosted the MAVRIC conference, featuring emerging augmented and virtual reality technologies, with a focus on healthcare. Chesapeake DHX continued providing mentoring and technical guidance to digital health start-ups in the region.

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31
digital health companies engaged,
raising >$20M in funding

Chesapeake Digital Health Exchange
Tech Hub

Tech Hub

Adapting Technical Support for Remote Work and Learning

The Tech Hub supports the technological needs of Johns Hopkins affiliates on the medical campus. Throughout the pandemic, the Tech Hub has eased the remote-work transition of many employees while continuing to support essential workers on campus through hardware and equipment repairs. Starting in March, the Tech Hub drastically increased their supply of webcams and iPads, securing and deploying hundreds of each across the institution. They now also offer work-from-home product bundles for simplified ordering, along with same-day shipping and contact-free delivery. For virtual education, the Tech Hub provided 75 Apple AirPods to professors and 100 tablets to employees with children in Baltimore City Schools.

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~300
telemedicine-approved web
cams secured and deployed

Student Services Excellence Initiative (SSEI)

Improving the Student Digital Experience

Working together, the TIC and SSEI teams are reimagining and unifying the Johns Hopkins digital experience through testing and launching a case management platform, designing a shared services website, hosting co-design sessions, and creating a Student Advisory Committee. SSEI is a university-wide initiative launched in 2016 by the Office of the Provost to improve the student experience across Johns Hopkins' nine schools. The SSEI team implements a user-centered design approach to improve student services in four areas: process standardization and digital workflow, unified digital student record, technology enhancements and shared services.

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135
student interviews and
usability tests conducted

Program Highlights

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Hexcite: Excited for Healthcare

Hexcite is an entrepreneurial accelerator program for early-stage medical software ideas. Johns Hopkins clinicians enter the program with a clinical problem they would like to solve through technology and are matched with business, technical, and design experts to build a technology product and start-up.

190
unique viewers for the
Final Pitch Event

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Featured Hexcite Team: ROSE

Rose is a  Remote Patient Monitoring solution that helps healthcare providers stay connected with their patients and monitor their mental health. It includes a provider panel to deliver remote care for reimbursement and a patient app with daily assessments, educational content, and telehealth scheduling capability. Hexcite helped Rose identify a market fit within the primary care space. It provided the structure and resources for stakeholder interviews, hypothesis testing, and networking. Hexcite led to investor connections and pilot opportunities.

Hexcite Team Dr. Matthew Peters, Kavi Misrilall, Joanna Fadel, Josh Christenson

LEADS: Leadership in Analytics and Data Science

LEADS is a data stewardship program hosted by the Technology Innovation Center in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Medicine Data Trust. Participants attend weekly lectures and workshops that cover multiple topics related to health care data compilation, analysis, and utilization. Learning both Python and SQL, at the end of the program all students are divided into teams and asked to use these programs to create a patient utilization mock dashboard.

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Hopkins departments represented

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Featured LEADS 2020 Participant: Jeremy Durkin

Jeremy is a Data Analytics Manager at the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he leads a small but mighty team of analysts whose mission it is to drive the fundraising success of Johns Hopkins Medicine through data and analytics. Jeremy first joined LEADS in 2019 as a student and found the push into Python programming that he received to be extremely valuable. Jeremy came back for the 2020-2021 LEADS program as a faculty member. He enjoys sharing the excitement of learning with the class while gaining a wealth of knowledge from the students as well.

Team

By the Numbers / Impact

45,934
hours worked on COVID projects

202,827
density monitored lab space check-ins
using the Prodensity app

567,857
patient self-screenings
in the Patient Pass app

116
projects worked on

12,654
hours worked
on Precision Medicine

15
approved Registry IRBs

Remote Team Culture

Collaborations

Connecting to Solve Complexities

Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures  Patient Access Services IT@JH Teams Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences  Healthcare Solutions  Johns Hopkins COVID Call Center Department of Health, Safety and Environment Carey Business School  Division of Health Sciences Informatics JHU & JHHS Legal Departments Wilmer Eye Institute  Johns Hopkins Health in Marketing & Communications Finance and Administration Bloomberg School of Public Health Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare Clinical Trials Billing and Quality Assurance Office of Telemedicine Applied Physics Laboratory Whiting School of Engineering Office of Integrated Delivery Armstrong Institute  Pediatric Intensive Care Unit  Data Trust Department of Radiology  Multiple Sclerosis Center  Student Services Excellence Initiative  Epilepsy Monitoring Unit  Artifact Health Stocastic Intelehealth Microsoft Rose  Corrie  Health Otophoto emocha Health Protenus Oncospace TEDCO Precog Health b.well  CRISP

42
Collaborating
groups engaged