Tag Archive: Informatics
ICTR in the News: Electronic Health Records Need Organizing System
Posted by: Crystal Williams on: October 12, 2018
Abundance of Electronic Health Information Requires Organizing System to Make Best Use of Data The following article discusses the published work of ICTR Deputy Director of Informatics, Dr. Christopher Chute. Credit: iStock The rate at which electronic health data is accumulating is unprecedented, a Johns Hopkins health informatics expert notes in a review published Oct. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine. To best make use of available information for personalized or precision medicine purposes, health organizations should consider using ontologies, a means of naming and organizing the information into categories for easier retrieval. Christopher G. Chute Credit: Johns … Continue reading
Program to Accelerate Clinical Research Using EPIC (PACE)
Posted by: Crystal Williams on: April 20, 2018
PACE was established to help clinical researchers take full advantage of tools within the EPIC Electronic Health Record system for their research projects. We design and build customized EPIC content for your project to enhance the efficiency and standardization of the data collection process and improve data quality. Potential applications of customized EPIC build are numerous, some typical scenarios include: Tools that help providers to collect discrete data on a population of interest (such as longitudinal studies). This may include documentation flowsheets and SmartForms as well SmartSets that help populate Epic data fields in a standardized way. It may also … Continue reading
OpenSpecimen Tracking
Posted by: Crystal Williams on: August 4, 2016
OpenSpecimen (formerly caTissue) is a bio-bank management tool used to collect, manage, process, annotate and distribute bio-specimens and associated data to selected users. At Johns Hopkins, OpenSpecimen is currently being used in Gastroenterology, Cardiology and Oncology. OpenSpecimen offers a comprehensive feature set, including: Biospecimen collection, inventory, and tracking Ability to track specimen events (thaws, spins, etc.) Customizable support for storage containers (i.e. freezers, shelves, racks, boxes, position) User-definable forms for patient, collection event, and specimen annotations Flexible specimen ordering and distribution workflows Graphical custom report builder Integrated bulk loading capabilities for existing data Support for multiple biorepositories and locations Mailing … Continue reading
Protection of Patient Data
Posted by: Roxanne Stambaugh on: December 21, 2015
Johns Hopkins has multiple IT policies regarding the protection of patient data. Diana Gumas, Senior Director for Clinical Research Information Technology, is responsible for working with the Johns Hopkins Medicine Data Trust, the Institutional Review Boards, and the clinical research community to facilitate compliance with policies and address and resolve special data protection needs. The goals of our data protection policies are to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law; to safeguard and protect all IT Resources from anything other than authorized and intended use; and to provide protection to academic, clinical, financial, research, and all other … Continue reading
REDCap
Posted by: Crystal Williams on: November 10, 2015
REDCap is a mature, secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. Using REDCap’s stream-lined process for rapidly developing projects, you may create and design projects using the online method from your web browser using the Online Designer and/or the offline method by constructing a ‘data dictionary’ template file in Microsoft Excel, which can be later uploaded into REDCap. Both surveys and databases (or a mixture of the two) can be built using these methods. REDCap provides automated export procedures for seamless data downloads to Excel and common statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, Stata, R), as well as … Continue reading
Qualtrics Survey
Posted by: Crystal Williams on: February 24, 2015
What is Qualtrics? Qualtrics is the world’s leading enterprise survey company, used by 1,300 colleges and universities worldwide, including every major university in the United States. Qualtrics makes it easy to create and distribute engaging surveys. Qualtrics is free for use by all School of Medicine faculty, students and staff for research, evaluations, event registration and more. Surveys can be created and distributed by anyone with a current university login. In order to protect sensitive data, please use Qualtrics instead of Survey Monkey for your surveys. Beyond regular surveys, Qualtrics provides a rich set of features, including the ability to support: Sharing survey design … Continue reading
SAFE Desktop
Posted by: Roxanne Stambaugh on: July 11, 2014
SAFE, the Secure Analytic Framework Environment (formerly called the Secure Data Desktop/SDD) is a virtual desktop that provides Johns Hopkins Medicine investigators (whether engaged in research or other data-intensive activities) with a secure environment to analyze and share sensitive data (e.g. PHI, PII) with colleagues. Top Features Software: the SAFE is installed with productivity software such as Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as statistical software, including SAS, Stata, R, R Studio, and Python. Other software applications can be installed for investigators willing to cover the licensing fees. Data sharing across study teams: the SAFE can be mapped to a … Continue reading
Epic Star Data Warehouse
Posted by: Roxanne Stambaugh on: July 11, 2014
The Star Data Warehouse is an analytical healthcare database that brings together Epic and non-Epic data, such as patient satisfaction information, in one simplified reporting database to vastly improve query ease and efficiency of data extraction for a key subset of data in Epic. To learn more about the Star Data Warehouse implementation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, please visit the the JHM SDW website. Please note, this is an internal website, visible only on the Hopkins network. Benefits Epic and non-Epic data in one place. Information from outside of Epic next to Epic data can be used to create reports … Continue reading
Clinical Research Management System (CRMS)
Posted by: Crystal Williams on: January 18, 2014
CRMS is a web-based tool designed to organize and streamline clinical research management. It is designed to improve communication among study team members, store subject enrollment information in a secure location, and run real-time reports. Accessible by JHED ID, CRMS supports electronic eligibility checklists, integrates with eIRB, and tracks signed consent forms. It is designed to improve communication among study team members, store subject enrollment information in a secure location, and run real-time reports. If you are already a CRMS user, you can access the software at http://research-prod.jhmi.edu/.