Dr. Berman helped design and currently maintains the computerized intraoperative recordkeeping system used in the cardiac and neurosurgical operating rooms. This system captures all physiologic and anesthetic related data during surgical procedures. He is also a member of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center’s study group on cerebral arteriovenous malformations and investigates outcome differences for the available treatment options.

Dr. Jordan’s main area of research consists of the summarization of large amounts of patient specific, clinical data using artificial intelligence and the distribution of this electronic information using multimedia formats. He believes that caregivers are tremendous consumers of information, requiring updates on patient clinical status, care plans, an test results. However, it is often difficult for them to obtain real-time information that they need in a concise form. He has helped developed a web-based application which permits anesthesiologists to review their operating room assignments and schedules online. Dr. Jordan uses the most up-to-date tools for automatically extracting and summarizing patient demographic information, vital signs, procedures and medications during the peri-operative period to provide a better information to caregivers. These briefings are coordinated together by reasoning with dynamically generated temporal and spatial constraints.