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A Clinical Research Information System for NIH3:00 pm January 16, 2003
Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
CRIS—the NIH Clinical Research Information System—is a $60 million project that will tie together and support patient care, research and management at the Clinical Center and the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center.
Work is now underway on the largest component of the CRIS, the core that will replace and expand the 25-year-old MIS. Stop by the CC’s Visitors’ Information Center 2-4 pm on Jan. 14, 23, or 27 to learn more about the capabilities of this core system.
Once complete, at least 24 distinct information systems will feed into two CRIS hubs, the Clinical Data Repository and the Clinical Data Warehouse.
The Clinical Data Repository will house information such as patient demographics, lab results, pharmacy orders, the hospital services formulary, information from referring physicians, physician notes, links to patient images in the radiology imaging system, and multidisciplinary documentation of care.
The Clinical Data Warehouse will centralize historical patient data and be organized for retrieval and analysis of data in groups in ways that assure patient privacy and confidentiality. Warehouse ancillary systems will focus on tracking information in support of safety and organizational efficiency initiatives.
Key CRIS benefits:
. In clinical research:
Collect data once for both research and clinical care-based on the protocol
Provide access to information for research
Automate patient-safety monitoring.
In patient care:
Provide a single, continuous record of care at NIH
Incorporate rules, alerts, and references pertinent to patient care
Protect patient privacy, confidentiality
Provide protocol-based ordering
Enable access to information about patient care for referring physicians.
In efficient management:
Adopt industry standards to allow for system interoperability
Provide a flexible system than can adapt to changing practice and research models—and to evolving technology.
Steve Rosenfeld
Dr. Rosenfeld came to NIH in 1988, after a residency in Internal Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He served as a Clinical Associate in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and completed a Hematology Fellowship in NHLBI in 1993. After completing his fellowship, Dr. Rosenfeld served as a Senior Staff Physician in the Clinical Pathology Department (CPD) of the NIH Clinical Center. In 1998 he accepted a dual appointment in CPD and the Clinical Center’s Information Systems Department (ISD). He was Acting Chief of ISD from 1998 to 1999, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Medical & Clinical Informatics from 1999 to 2000, and currently is Chief of the Department of Clinical Research Informatics. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Rosenfeld completed an executive MBA in April, 2001.
Dr. Rosenfeld is the leader of the Clinical Research Information System (CRIS) project, an effort to replace the existing information management infrastructure of the Clinical Center to better serve research, clinical care, and hospital management. He has a long standing interest in computing and in intelligent computing methodologies and applications
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Want to know more? Go to cris.cc.nih.gov
