Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute OCTRI

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Oregon Clinical and Translational Research
Institute (OCTRI)

• Eric Orwoll, MD Director
• Collaboration between Oregon Health Science
  University (OHSU) and Kaiser Permanente Northwest
  (KPNW, including their Center for Health
  Research, KPCHR) to advance clinical and
  translational research (CTR)
• Institute builds on individual strengths
• OHSU research programs in basic and clinical
  sciences, referral population, academic
  informatics
• KPNW research programs in clinical sciences and
  health services, longitudinal population,
  advanced EHR infrastructure

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OCTRI Biomedical Informatics Program
OCTRI Exec. Comm.
OCTRI Investigators
Nat. Steering Committee
Bill Hersh, Director
Rob Schuff, Co-Director Clinical
Research Informatics
Pierre La Chance, Co-Director Data warehousing
and coordination
Shannon McWeeney, Co-Director Translational
bioinformatics
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OCTRI Biomedical InformaticsProgram Aims

• Specific Aims for BMI Program
• Create a comprehensive inter-institutional
  virtual data warehouse
• Expand research informatics support for clinical
  and translational investigation
• Provide advanced bioinformatics support services
  and methodology development
• Development and maintenance of a front door Web
  portal
• Education and training in biomedical informatics
  for scientists and staff

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Our vision for Informatics Steering Committee
advancing CTR

• Infuse research into clinical informatics
  initiatives nationally and locally
• Align research community (and CTSA programs) with
  clinical community efforts in standards and
  interoperability, e.g., HITSP, caBIG, CDISC,
  BRIDG, BIRN, etc.
• Advance biomedical informatics research and
  education programs
• Inject realism into expectations, e.g., churning
  electronic health records through data mining
  algorithms alone will not generate new knowledge

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Questions?
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Virtual data warehouse data
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Virtual data warehouse organization