1. Biomedical Informatics Core technology, data, services
Jon and Tim

2. Biomedical Informatics Core Mission
Catalyze clinical and translational research within VCU and its partners by providing technical infrastructure, data, policies, and informatics expertise to practitioners and health science researchers.

3. Technical Infrastructure & Data
Electronic Data Capture (REDCap)
Clinical Trials Management System
Cohort Discovery(i2b2)
VCU Clinical Data
External Data
VCU Community Network
Honest Broker Services*

4. Case Report Forms
Web-based Surveys
Imports EHR Data
Data Management / Export

5. REDCap Perks Free Centrally maintained by VCU Audit trails
Secure for PHI
Backed up
High availability
Audit trails
User activity
Data manipulation
Custom built by you
Handles most
Structured data
Unstructured data
Files
Lots of support for you
Training classes
Online support
BIC Consulting

6. Cohort Discovery and Identification
Answers the question: how many of this type of patients do we have here?
Called ‘i2b2’
Web-based
Easy to use (I mean it)
HIPAA Compliant
Searches by demographics, diagnosis, laboratory, medications, microbiology, procedures, providers, and visit details

7. i2b2 Pre award Post award Feasibility Rough hypothesis testing
Subject fatigue analysis
Easy information on your cohort
Contact info for consent
Clinical EHR data

8. VCU Health System Clinical Data
We help with research, they help with Performance Improvement
VCUHS and VCU BIC work together
Centralized clinical data request process for both VCU and VCUHS
The BIC can get help you figure out what you need
The BIC can give you some data

9. Clinical Research Data Warehouse
‘Source of truth’ for EHR data at VCUHS
Designed for research and analytics
Speed for pulling out data
Accuracy
Data has been cleaned
Updated daily
Is integral part of VCUHS EDW

10. External EHR Data (HealthFacts)
Very large data warehouse with almost every Cerner client EHR
Updated annually – biannually
De-identified patient data
Orgs are confidential
Demographics
Diagnosis
Procedures
Laboratory
Microbiology
Pharmacy/medication
Encounter

11. HealthFacts Opportunities
Comparative effectiveness research
Clinical (not billing) data
Inpatient experience
Preliminary data for
Identifying new targets
Research justification
Quality benchmarking
Health services descriptive analysis

12. Support & Training REDCap I2b2 Clinical Data Warehouse HealthFacts
Beginning, intermediate, & advanced classes
Bimonthly
Liaison program
I2b2
Monthly
Clinical Data Warehouse
Query tools training classes as needed
HealthFacts
Clinical Trials Management System

13. BIC Researcher Portal Interactive support User communities
Message board
Video
Training calendar
User communities
Stay connected!
News & updates

14. VCU Community Network Communitynetwork.vcu.edu
Key contact and research info automatically populated
Community partners in on place
Our focus:
Inter campus collaborations
Student-PI matching
Community partners

15. One Request Process
go.vcu.edu/bicrequest