Biomedical Informatics (HIIT)

The primary goal of the CTSC’s Home for Integrative Informatics in Translation (HIIT) is to leverage and enhance key resources from across the institutional partnership to benefit clinical and translational research. This new program will play a critical role in integrating these resources, providing a central access point for researchers and establishing an infrastructure for interoperability and sharing, both locally (within the CTSC partnership) and nationally.

Important new initiatives include the adoption of federated authentication, the planned deployment of a new clinical trials management system at WCMC and future integration with the EMR, the development of a new infrastructure to support data sharing, and a partnership with the nationally renowned Department of Computer Science at the Cornell-Ithaca campus, designed to be the informatics counterpart of translational research, bringing theoretical computer science to bear on real-world problems.

A multi-functional Web portal, named eHUB (electronic Home for Unified Biomedical Informatics) unites these efforts and brings centralized access to information and resources to the desktops of investigators planning and conducting basic, clinical and translational research. In addition, the biomedical informatics program provides essential support for CTSC cores, administration, and PCIR operations.