CCTS Biomedical Informatics Core
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Joyce Mitchell, Ph.D. |
The primary objective of the Biomedical Informatics Core is to create and sustain a statewide set of interconnected data resources that virtually link genotypic, phenotypic, genealogic, health care, environmental, and public health data from a disparate collection of sources. Because of the primacy of data-security, regulatory-compliance, and privacy issues, we propose to connect these resources in a measured, well-regulated way by tightly coupling the Biomedical Informatics Core and the Ethics Core of the CCTS. In order to ensure adoption, the work of this Core will be tightly linked to the Education and Community cores through the CCTS Executive Committee.
The Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core is Dr. Joyce Mitchell, who is also the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences IT.
The Biomedical Informatics Core will combine the considerable informatics expertise from the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Medical Informatics group at Intermountain Healthcare, and informatics researchers at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center. We will also utilize various informatics and IT resources from the partner organizations, including the Utah Population Database, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Utah Department of Health, UU Health Sciences IT Services, and the Utah Health Information Network.