2019 Spring Industry Advisory Board Meeting Recap

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Penn State National Science Foundation Center for Health Organization Transformation
(Penn State CHOT) - An Industry-University Cooperative Research Center
April 2019
2019 Spring Industry Advisory Board

Meeting Recap
IAB Meeting Recap
The Center for Health Organization Transformation's

(CHOT) 2019 Spring Industry Advisory Board (IAB)
Meeting, held April 3-4, was hosted by Penn
State Great Valley in Malvern, Pennsylvania. There
were more than 60 individuals in attendance, including
11 IAB members and four potential IAB members.
The week comprised of 17 research project proposal

presentations, which included two members
representing Penn State with their research proposals. CHOT's 2019/2020 research themes
include population health, care coordination, analytics and innovative technologies, patient
experience, and access to care.
After each project proposal presentation, IAB members, guests, faculty, and students were able
to discuss the proposals' research aims and approaches during 15-minute question and answer
sessions.
CHOT Scholars' Feedback
"The CHOT team had a wonderful experience at the spring

conference. Two of our own Penn State members
presented meaningful and impactful work that sparked
insightful conversation and excitement among the industry
members attending. The atmosphere consisted of a
strong passion for creating paradigm shifts in the way
effective health care is accomplished, and continues to
inspire the students working at Penn State to establish
such change." - Mallory Peterson, medical student in
engineering at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
"I had a wonderful experience witnessing the strong

showing of Penn State in CHOT presentations/
workshops and it was good to learn about the
outcomes of projects. Attending the meetings was
also very informative about the project structure for
next year." - Rajeev Bhatt, graduate assistant in
electrical engineering
"The IAB meeting was a great experience for me.

Together with Prof. Qiushi Chen, I presented the proposal
for combating the current opioid crisis. We are able to get
connected with a few industry partners (e.g., Hershey
Medical Center, Highmark, and York Risk Group), as well
as other CHOT university sites (e.g., UAB), for further
collaborations." - Leon Xu, doctoral student in Smeal
College of Business
"I had a great opportunity to present my research. There

was a great interest in my talk and audiences from
industry and academia asked lots of questions about it. It
was wonderful to know the idea of practitioners my hearing
my research, which helps me significantly to perform more
impact and real-life research." - Farhad Imani, graduate
student in Industrial Engineering
Ph.D. student Leon Xu and
Associate Professor Hui Zhao
from Smeal College of
Business present at April IAB
meeting
Leon Xu, doctoral student in business
administration, presented "A Prediction,
Prevention, and Intervention Model to Combat
the Opioid Epidemic" at the April IAB meeting,
on behalf of the Penn State research team,
which consisted of Professor Qiushi Chen,
Professor Hui Zhao, and Xu.
The new proposal on opioid research

further investigates the individual treatment
pathway and individually-customized prediction
models to predict patient behavior (treatment
retention/relapse) and health outcomes.
While most research has focused on the supply side of the opioid problem (e.g., tighter
control of prescription), this research looks at the demand-side of the opioid problem,
studying the impact of treatment facilities of opioid addicts. Using data from 2006-2017 on
the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, data from 2006-2017 on
CDC Wonder, and data from 2006-2017 on Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
(HCUP), the researchers quantified that on average, 1% increase of the number of
substance use treatment facilities leads to a 2.7% decrease of opioid overdose death and
0.21% decrease of opioid-related emergency room visits. Compared to previous research
that only indicates the potential relationships without quantifying them, these results
provide evidence and policy implications for improving the accessibility of
treatment facilities.
The research is concluded, results were presented in the April IAB meeting, and a
manuscript is being prepared to be submitted to a health policy journal, "Health Affairs."
Graduate student, Farhad

Imani presents at April IAB
meeting
Farhad Imani, a graduate student in Industrial
Engineering presented his research in "data-
enabled predictive modeling and intervention
optimization of breast cancer" at the spring
CHOT IAB meeting on behalf of the Penn State
research team, which consisted of Dr. Hui
Yang, Dr. Conrad Tucker and graduate student
Ruimin Chen.
Imani shared his findings of the recurrence

analysis of breast cancer incidences and the
important factor that has an impact on the
recurrence of breast cancer. His presentation
included a focus about leveraging this data to
improve the quality of life for patients who
suffers from breast cancer. In his submitted
abstract Imani stated that;
The recurrence of breast cancer is a prevailing

problem which decreases the quality of a
patients' lives, leads to the high expenditure in
post-treatment screening for families and
influences well-being of society. The
advancements in sensing technology provide an
unprecedented opportunity to increase information visibility and describe the patterns of
event occurrence.
Research has been submitted to IEEE International Conference on Automation Science

and Engineering 2019. Another conference paper is currently being worked on which will
be presented in coming INFORMS conference.
Penn State CHOT Research Highlights
Text Summarizer
Rajeev Bhatt, a master's student in the College of Engineering, with his adviser,
College of Information Sciences and Technology Professor Prasenjit Mitra, are building
a state-of-the-art text summarizer.
The text summarizer takes a large document as an input to automatically summarize the
important highlights in a few sentences. The model is built on fundamentals from deep learning
largely due to its effectiveness in predictive modeling and scalability with available training data.
ROUGE is a standard measure to evaluate the quality of a summarizer compared to a human

benchmark. The model currently has a ROUGE score of 39 compared to the state-of-the-art of
around 41. Bhatt and Professor Mitra are working toward the advancement of the summarization.
Bhatt is hoping to submit the research project to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing.
Upcoming Events
Fall 2019 IAB Meeting
Hosted by the University of Washington
Date: Thurs., Oct.17, 2019 and Fri., Oct.18, 2019
Location: University of Washington
More information can be found here.
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2019 Spring Industry Advisory Board

The Center for Health Organization Transformation's

The week comprised of 17 research project proposal

CHOT Scholars' Feedback

"The CHOT team had a wonderful experience at the spring

"I had a wonderful experience witnessing the strong

"The IAB meeting was a great experience for me.

"I had a great opportunity to present my research. There

The new proposal on opioid research

Graduate student, Farhad

Imani shared his findings of the recurrence

The recurrence of breast cancer is a prevailing

Research has been submitted to IEEE International Conference on Automation Science

Penn State CHOT Research Highlights

ROUGE is a standard measure to evaluate the quality of a summarizer compared to a human

More information can be found here.

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