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Academic
Medical Research Centers
Accelerating translational
research
The CTSA (Clinical Translational Science Awards)
have made funding for academic medical research increasingly dependent
on the ability to establish a reliable and scalable infrastructure to
support translational research initiatives and to create an environment
that can deliver on the promise of personalized medicine. A core
infrastructure component is a clincal data repository (CDR) that has
the ability to manage patient data in a secure central location that
can link electronic clinical information from EMRs and claims data with
LIMS applications, tissue banks, CTMS/EDC tools, omics assays, and
scientific analysis tools. Putting a CDR into place includes not only
technical challenges but also the critical needs to establish the
appropriate data governance, patient privacy, modifications to IRB
processes and consent policies around the collection and use of samples
and data.
Recombinant helps Academic Medical Research
Centers accelerate their research by offering the tools and services
needed to build out a successful research infrastructure. Our solutions
focus on leveraging existing staff, resources and available commercial
and open source tools. Because Recombinant was founded as a result of a
long collaboration with Partners Healthcare, a leading Academic Medical
Research Center, we continue to work towards a vision to make the
translation of medicine from the bench to the bedside an easier and
more effective process.
Our solution for AMRCs includes the
following offerings:
- Development of strategic roadmaps for
implementing a research infrastructure
- Data governance/privacy strategy and design
- Research data warehouse development and
management
- Integration of the clinical research data
warehouse to key systems to streamline research workflows (eIRB, tissue
bank, CTMS/EDC, EMRs)
- Commercial support and implementation services
for open source clinical research application frameworks like i2b2,
Gene pattern, Open Clinica, and caTissue
- Custom software or registry development for
specific research focused projects
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The transition to Personalized Medicine wil
require a number of components to be established at institutions. A
clinical data warehouse will be a fundamental component of both
research and clinical operations.
HIPAA and IRB requirements establish a virtual
wall that control the flow of data for research. A complete research
infrastructure includes components and integrations to ensure that
security wall protects patient privacy while still allowing for
efficient access to data.
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i2b2
(Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) is an NIH-funded
National Center for Biomedical Computing based at Partners HealthCare.
Using hospital data for
translational research at UMass Medical School
Breaking down the roadblocks
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The Clinical Data Pipeline
Fueling analytics for researchers and
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