We have an initial network involving faculty from the MU College of Engineering, MU School of Medicine, MU Health Management and Informatics, MU School of Management, MU University Hospitals and Clinics, and MU College of Education, and Missouri MEP Program (Missouri Enterprise). The following are listed of currently interested partners:

MU CoE :

Various faculties from Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Bioinformatics.

MU School of Medicine :

Michael C. Hosokawa (Associate Dean for Curriculum, Professor of family and community medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia), Douglas Wakefield (Director of Healthcare Quality, School of Medicine), Golden Brown (Chair and Head, Healthcare Informatics and Management), Kalyan Pasupathy (Assistant Professor, Healthcare Informatics and Management)

University of Missouri Health Care :

Karen R. Cox (Manager of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Office of Clinical Effectiveness at University of Missouri Health Care and Senior Investigator for the Center at Health Care Quality), Larry Hall (Manager Engineering Services, University of Missouri Health Care), Kay Davis (Director Patient Financial Services, University of Missouri Health Care)

MU School of Nursing :

Marilyn Rantz (Professor. Her work is with our Senior Care and Tiger Place projects, and already collaborates with engineering faculty on some projects. She manages a quality improvement project for nursing homes funded by the state. She does NIH research on quality of care in nursing homes and federal funds testing technology interventions in nursing homes.) Gregory Lynn Alexander (Assistant Professor, IT system and quality), Jill Scott- Cawiezell (Her work is with systems level research to improve quality of care in nursing homes. She also has federal funding related to technology in nursing homes.), Myra Aud (Her research is on long-term care, especially assisted living. She also teaches several management courses so there might be linkages there.)

MU School of Education :

David Jonassen (Distinguished Professor)

MU Business School:

Kenneth Evans (Associate Dean)

Primaris Healthcare Business Solutions :

Joe Quetsch (Electronic Health Record Advisor)

MU Truman Memorial VA Hospital:

Missouri MEP Program ( Missouri Enterprise)

In addition, the administration of MU Vet Hospital is also very interested in the initiative.