Authors: Pamela Morris, Amira Zamin

The purpose of CatalyzeCare is to provide a cyberinfrastructure for online collaboration that aims to improve and transform healthcare delivery. The site, funded by the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, seeks to initially provide a free and open place for researchers to share data sets and collaborate on the development and piloting of tools for modeling and data visualization. Outcomes of such projects can then be disseminated via CatalyzeCare to appropriate audiences including other researchers, practitioners, and patients.

Finally, CatalyzeCare aims to assist projects that will clearly lead to impacts on healthcare delivery. A key to fulfilling these goals is the establishment of communities centered on an interest area or research project team. Such teams cross the boundaries of universities and disciplines and may include practitioners and patients in addition to researchers. Often the project's community is the sole way to access data or activate tools relevant to that community. Sub-communities are used to partition parts of a project as well. Our talk will tour two of our active communities who share data and private tools. We'll explain how these communities are being used to provide unique opportunities for research, dissemination, and impact using a model of sharing and cooperation that is not centered in academia and thus differs somewhat from other HUBs.

Pamela is currently a Ph.D. student in Communication at Purdue University. Her interests are collaborative computing and technology adoption in organizations. She is currently a graduate research assistant with the Regenstrief Institute for Healthcare Engineering (see www.catalyzecare.org) and a TA for a variety of courses in the Department of Communication. She has also been a graduate research assistant on the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision's Hub Collaboration Research Team and taught Meeting Management for that department. Pamela studied computer science and worked at IBM for 12 years before coming to Purdue. Pamela is a certified Project Manager and aspires to work with technology when she completes her degree.

Amira Zamin serves as the communications specialist for the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE). Her background includes marketing communications for higher education and healthcare. Amira earned her BA and MA at the University of Iowa.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Pamela L Morris; Amira Zamin (2011), "CatalyzeCare: Transforming Healthcare Delivery Through Communities," https://help.hubzero.org/resources/443.

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