Collaborative Biomedical Informatics Research

BIC will assist the Clinical Research Development and Operations Center (CRDOC) and Research and Engagement for Advancing Community Health (REACH) in their outreach missions, through the use of Internet-based training of community-based practitioners in subject recruitment and community-based research.

Such efforts enhance the access of subjects, make available representative patient data and tissue samples from population-based provider networks, and lead to greater representation of rural populations in CCTS studies. BIC will expand support of clinical research in a distributed rural network, including Appalachia, by building upon the Marty Driesler and Kentucky Lung Cancer Network programs. These data will be available for outcomes research on the entire served population, serving as a model for statewide and nationwide networks.

BIC will link practitioners electronically to share information and provide a secure link as well as support sites for subject and patient data, specimen collection, and follow-up. Initial efforts will demonstrate the ability of current university-based systems, such as central tissue-banking support, and secure local collection of patient medical information.

BIC will partner with private industries to form a public-private link, linking UK to the community to conduct research. BIC is collaborating with the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) in developing such a link. This network linkage will not only be used for recruitment and research management but dissemination of ideas and novel therapies

Additional BIC Collaborative Efforts

Eclipsys Collaboration

BIC has established a collaborative relationship with several centers and is a founding member of the Academic Medical Center Clinical Systems Collaborative, formed in July 2007, with Johns Hopkins University and University of Michigan.

The collaborative brings together academic medical centers that deploy Eclipsys applications, to share nonconfidential information and knowledge regarding strategies, experiences, and best practices for deploying Eclipsys software systems; to bring forward to Eclipsys and other industry leaders strategies, ideas, and approaches that maximize successful deployment; and to promote personal collaboration through periodic meetings and research.

Members include Yale, NIH, Boston Medical, Memorial Sloane Kettering, Barnes Jewish, the University of Pennsylvania Hospital for Special Surgery, New York Presbyterian and New York University.

Bidirectional Communication

UK will support bidirectional communication through secure, high bandwidth data transfer and collaboration portals for data sources of external institutions and partners, such as the National Clinical and Translational Science Award Consortium, the primary care practice-based research network Kentucky Ambulatory Network (KAN), and caBIG^™.

Additional BIC Collaborative Efforts

Bidirectional Communication

This feature is a critical means to enable data and resource sharing. To support its role as the coordinator of multi-site NIH trials, UK will employ expanded clinical trials management systems through the REDCap Consortium.

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