Recombinant offers a suite of services to help healthcare organizations to get started with the i2b2 translational research software platform. Whether you need a planning workshop or a full implementation of a data warehouse and the platform we can help to accelerate your planning process and lower the risk to implement i2b2. To get started please contact us. Services include the following:

Strategic Planning Workshop (1 day)
A one day workshop to discuss the issues that must be addressed to launch a successful research data warehouse. The workshop is designed for project managers and executives who want to understand the key factors that will ensure success. The workshop can be an opportunity to engage key executives and discuss matters of specific concern.  Topics include:

1. Security and Privacy
2. Budgeting
3. Staffing
4. Infrastructure
5. Developing a timeline

Implementation Planning Workshop (1 day)
A one day workshop for project managers and team leads that addresses technical issues related to the implementation of the data warehouse. This workshop addresses the technical concerns of IT and walks through the architecture of the i2b2 data warehouse, its middleware server, and workbench. Specific topics include:

1. Architecture of the i2b2 Data Warehouse
2. Data model overview
3. Metadata and query operation
4. Design of Data Loading Processes
5. Implementation challenges – testing and launch

Data Governance Planning Workshop (1 day)
A one day workshop to help navigate the legal and organizational issues around delivering data from clinical systems to researchers. The workshop helps to establish the key success factors in reducing risk through identification, implementing honest broker agents, and engaging multiple stakeholders including the IRB, security, safety, and finance departments. It also covers how to govern the stewardship of data and prioritization procedures for inclusion and exclusion of data resource. Specific topics include:

1. Defining PHI categories
2. Deidentification solutions
3. Governance and stewardship of data resources
4. Data request workflows
5. Usage auditing protocols

Implementation Readiness Assessment (3 days)
The Implementation Readiness Assessment is designed to create a working document to launch an implementation project. Conducted by our Principals, we interview executive stakeholders and technical staff to identify the key hurdles that must be overcome to implement an i2b2 Pilot. The Strategic Planning Workshop can be day one of the assessment project. The final report is a high level plan with at least 3 data sources and staffing requirements identified.

Prototype Development (3-6 weeks)
The Prototype is a rapid development project that loads sample data for 2 or 3 data sources into an i2b2 database and maps the data to ontologies to support key queries. The culmination is a demonstration system for executives and decision makers with de-identified data. Prototypes usually contain 3 to 20 million fact records.

Pilot implementation project (3-6 months)
Recombinant's team is expert in data warehouse development and in software implementations using the i2b2 framework. By working with our team you can jump start your deployment and have a working system in half the time of establishing an internal development project. Pilot implementations vary depending upon the existing infrastructure at your site but can include data integration, data cleansing, ontology mapping, software extensions, system integration, project management, documentaion, and deployment support.

Pilot support (6 month or 1 year support agreements)
For teams implementing a pilot with their own resources for evaluation of the software and evaluation for a small user community Recombinant offers fixed price support for 6 month or one year time frames. Support includes telephone and email support and a service level agreement to resolve installation problems, software bugs, and questions about the source code.

To get started contact us today!