Center for Biomedical Informatics

As an outgrowth of CCTS and BIC, the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI) was created to provide a tangible "academic home" for the overall discipline of biomedical informatics. CBI accelerates research, patient care and education excellence through an institution-wide collaboration that furthers UK's impact goal to enhance the overall health and well-being of Kentuckians.

CBI supports UK's goal for expansion of the clinical and translational research enterprise, supporting the range of CCTS key functions, including the BIC and Research and Engagement for Advancing Community Health (REACH) initiatives. CBI facilitates the implementation of the entire UK informatics vision and strategy long-term beyond that of BIC.

CBI faculty hold appointments in colleges throughout the university, allowing the CBI to encompass activities that occurr across a multitude of interests and disciplines, both clinical and nonclinical. These activities include bioinformatics (genomics and proteomics), medical informatics, and public health informatics.

CBI provides a service function, training and education in the field, and research and scholarly activities concerning biomedical informatics. CBI is maturing its informatics certificate program to an interdisciplinary MS-level degree program. CBI is a separate entity from CCTS, and BIC represents the bridge between the academic program (CBI) and CCTS.

CBI also serves as a resource and collaborator for other entities at UK, including individual faculty, other centers such as the Center for Computational Science and the Center for Enterprise Quality and Safety (CEQS), UKHealthCare, and the local and national research community.

Advanced systems in bioinformatics, data analytics and modeling, data warehousing, and medical informatics exist at UK with access to research and administrative data, hardware infrastructure, and expertise. This infrastructure supports UK's research and clinical care efforts.

UK possesses strengths in biostatistics, computer science, genomics, statistics, and large database management. Informatics remains a key area of research development. We continue to make significant progress in coordinating these data-rich environments and sophisticated technologies to develop multiple levels of data access across the spectrum of clinical care and the basic, clinical, and translational sciences.