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The Center for Healthcare Innovation and Technology Advancements (CHITA) promotes innovative, interdisciplinary research to advance healthcare process and outcomes through person-centered technological design, development, implementation and use that address real-world challenges faced by patients, families, and clinicians. Under the leadership of Dr. Bo Xie and Dr. Wonshik Chee, the Center’s Co-Directors, the CHITA… read more 

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing Professor Bo Xie, PhD, FGSA, has received a $561,417 grant from the National Institute on Aging in the National Institutes of Health for a high-priority R56 research project titled Tailoring Responses to ADRD Caregivers’ Information Wants Through Human-Machine Collaboration (TRACO).

The patient was scheduled to have a shoulder replacement. She wasn’t concerned about the procedure itself but did want to know more details. She wanted to know what it would feel like, how much it weighed, even what color it might be.