Mission: To promote the use of Penn Health System information resources in support of clinical research.
Goals:
- Facilitate collection of data from operational information systems in the
Penn health system
- Facilitate the creation of interventions in operational information
systems in the Penn health system
- Foster the use of information systems such as electronic medical record
and computerized order entry in the conduct of clinical trials
- Enable the use of Electronic Health Records, Computerized Order Entry
Systems, Health System Administrative Databases, laboratory and other
ancillary test information systems to provide primary data for
epidemiological and health services research studies
- Educate ITMAT investigators on the types and quality of data and
limitations of its use for health system information systems
In development:
- Procedure for access to data from Penn Health System Resources
- Procedure for request to build interventions among Penn Health System information systems
- Educational materials for Penn Health System Resources
Director of the COHSI
Craig A Umscheid, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Co-director of the COHSI
Mark Weiner, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Internal Medicine and Director of Information Systems Integration
for Research,
Office of Human Research
General Inquiries can be sent to craig.umscheid@uphs.upenn.edu
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