biomedical informatics

The Biomedical Informatics core is a technical collaboration of the four major healthcare institutions in the Cleveland area and their associated clinical and translational components to build a cooperative academic home for research IT, informatics and computer systems.

Leadership
Mission
  • Short-term focus on central administrative systems in the new academic "home"
    • Public website and cross-core, cross-institutional information sharing
    • The Research Concierge Request Management System (RMS)
    • A pilot grant funding request submission, review and approval system
  • Mid-term focus to improve and expand PI/research data management support
    • Clinical research unit (CRU) technical staff and systems availability
    • Use of our Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) central database
    • Answer research technical questions or submissions outside the CRUs, or for FDA regulated drug and device trials
  • Longer-term strategic initiatives
    • Develop and manage a federated research data repository
    • Make a cross-institutional framework for research data/information sharing (the Biomedical Research Information Management system, or BRIM, and research portal)
    • Partner with other CTSAs for informatics/IT academic research interests
How we support investigators:
  • Provide and manage shared IT and informatics resources, tools, systems, underlying connectivity and security to support the CTSC administrative "home" at the Center for Clinical Investigation, and for more complex research and standardized information management including
    • CTSC public website
    • CTSC Wiki
    • CTSC listservs
    • Teleconference services
    • Meeting scheduling
    • Web demonstrations
    • Online survey development
  • Assist with technical evaluations, or provide recommendations for research projects
  • Help grant, scientific or IRB submissions for research data management needs
  • Provide connections to free, low-cost or highly-customized research application and database system development
  • Look for existing research IT and informatics tools or expertise across all CTSAs nationally
  • Respond to requests for EMR queries of patient data for IRB approved studies
  • Simplify and standardize intra- and inter-institutional research processes
  • Facilitate access to various local systems, data, knowledge and experts in
    • Electronic Medical Record Systems (EpiCare at Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth)
    • Clinical Trial Management Systems (Velos and Oncore)
    • Various biospecimen repository applications
    • Cancer research environment and the comprehensive cancer center
    • Clinical informatics and translational bioinformatics
  • Develop cooperative policy and data sharing agreements between institutions
  • Make outside referrals to companies, academic medical centers, government research organizations (e.g., NIH, NCRR, caBIG, etc.), standards development organizations (e.g., CDISC, HL7, etc.), or professional associations (e.g., AMIA, HIMSS, Clinical Research Forum, etc.)
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