Informatics Core Services (ICS)

LEADERSHIP: Albert Lai, PhD

Informatics Core Services (ICS) is an institutional shared resource (SR) that provides a wide range of biomedical informatics (BMI) and data analytics support to cancer-focused researchers throughout Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), including the Siteman Cancer Center (SCC). Further, ICS works in close coordination with the SCC Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSR) and Tissue Procurement Core (TPC), as well as broader institutional units such as the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) and Institute for Public Health (IPH), thus facilitating access to seamless continuum of data, information, and knowledge management capabilities. More specifically, ICS provides electronic health record data brokerage and electronic data capture services to support clinical and translational research broadly at WUSM. As part of these services, ICS operates the Research Data Core (RDC), which contains data from Washington University Physicians and BJC HealthCare electronic health records spanning over 20 years. ICS provides billable services to broker access to deidentified, limited, and fully identified electronic health record (HER) data. ICS is also capable of performing extensive analytics and software development utilizing EHR data, including the use of natural language processing tools for data extraction. Over the last grant period, ICS has supported more than 100 cancer-focused publications and 20 types of NIH-NCI grants, including more than 30 R01, 10 T32, and numerous U24, U54, P50, P30, R37, K12, R21, U10, and U01 grants.

LOCATION: Cortex Building & 4444 Forest Park Parkway Building

PRICING: Please contact the core for current pricing of services offered.

TO ACCESS: e-mail [email protected]

NIH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY: As of April 7, 2008, the NIH requires investigators with a publication using Siteman (or other NIH-funded) shared resources to submit (or have submitted for them) their final, peer reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central(PMC) upon acceptance of publication, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. Many journals automatically submit these for authors, but Washington University also has assistance available through the Becker Medical Library. Please see this resource for more information.

PUBLICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: If research supported by the Informatics Core Services results in publication, please acknowledge this support by including the following in your publication(s):

We thank the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. and the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) at Washington University in St. Louis, for the use of the Informatics Core Services, which provided __________ service. The Siteman Cancer Center is supported in part by an NCI Cancer Center Support Grant #P30 CA091842 and the ICTS is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program grant #UL1 TR002345.