The Center for Biomedical Informatics in Translation (BIIT) was formed within ITMAT to provide informatics resources and services for investigators conducting clinical and translational research projects.
 
This new Center for BIIT spans both Penn Medicine and CHOP, promoting data standards and interoperability, integrative informatics technologies and Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) tools for all types and sizes of clinical and translational research studies.

Together with industry and vendor partners, the Center for BIIT will expand PENN and CHOP informatic resources, in the deployment of an enterprise-wide system for data integration across the entire biomedical and clinical research spectrum.  These expanded informatics resources also will lead to new informatics connectivity between CHOP and PENN.

The Co-Directors of BIIT (JR Landis-PENN & P White–CHOP) are committed to promote strong cooperation among all informatics groups within both institutions, recognizing that the transformational goals cannot be attained without strong partnership between both institutions.

The Center for Biomedical Informatics in Translation (BIIT) brings together a multi-disciplinary team of faculty investigators and technology leaders from across the PENN andCHOP campuses, including biostatistics, bioinformatics, biomedical and clinical research informatics, computer science, research information technology, and computational biology.

The BIIT Center’s key objectives are:

• Provide opportunities and resources for research on novel methods and approaches to translational and clinical science that can in turn be converted to knowledge;

• Provide translational technologies and a knowledge base for the spectrum of clinical and translational science, including all types and sizes of studies and specialties;

• Integrative informatics technologies that span all Pediatric and Adult Research Enterprises activities, including Clinical Research Informatics tools for all types and sizes of clinical research studies;

• Foster collaboration between institution departments and schools and between institutions and industry;

• Provide point of contact for partnerships with industry, foundations and community physicians;

• Provide research education, training and career development for the next generation of clinical and translational researchers.