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Biomedical Informatics Core

The Biomedical Informatics Core (BMI) is a resource for service, education, and innovation in assisting ITHS members with informatics needs. The goal of the BMI core is to give investigators the appropriate biomedical informatics toolkits (both physical and intellectual) to manage and interpret complex data, and to allow data to be shared in a facile manner across all ITHS sites and core functions. The core is available for consultations and collaborations with translational ITHS investigators at any stage of the research process.

The BMI core also conducts research in bioinformatics data integration, clinical experimental management systems, ontologies and bioinformatics tool design.

Projects:

• Develop access to electronic health information across partner institutions with approval by institutional review boards.
• Develop new tools to allow translational researchers to more easily design study specific data capture forms and corresponding databases.
• Develop scalable approaches for interfacing to biological study data from scientific instrumentation cores (e.g. clinical specimen expression array data).
• Advance ontology-driven data integration systems to meet the needs of translational researchers.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other CTSA's to foster adoption of best practices, and move toward interoperable CTSA informatics tools.

Key Core Area Contacts:

• Access to electronic health data – Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
• Study data management tools, Electronic Data Capture (EDC)  – Jim Brinkley
• Access to data from scientific instrumentation – Jim Brinkley
• Data integration – Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
• CTSA informatics infrastructure – Nick Anderson

Leadership Team

Core Director: Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD.
Associate Director: Jim Brinkley, MD, PhD
Associate Director: Nick Anderson, PhD
Clinical Study Systems Architect: Dan Ach