COVID-19 Biobank Helps Researchers Share Patients’ Samples

The dedicated biorepository will safely collect and store serum, plasma and immune cell samples from COVID-19-positive and -negative patients. Researchers will be able to request access to the samples, which will be linked to the patients’ de-identified clinical data.

UR CTSI Offers New Electronic Medical Record Cohort Discovery Tool

TriNetX provides URMC researchers with access to longitudinal clinical data in near-real-time and uses state-of-the-art analytics to identify potential study participants based on specific study criteria.

Speeding Clinical Data to Our Researchers

UR CTSI’s “i2b2 to REDCap” program offers researchers a way to access, sort, and export clinical data from Electronic Health Records quickly and efficiently, so they can make new discoveries faster.  

Dive into Healthcare Data on Nov 12

Register for the second annual RocHD3: Rochester Healthcare Deep Data Dive to develop new scientific questions and devising ways to use healthcare data to answer them. The all-day "unconference" will take place on Saturday, November 12.

RocHackHealth: A Path Toward New Solutions to Health Care Issues

The University of Rochester CTSI hosted a health care data hackathon, called RocHackHealth, April 8-10. Teams of “hactivists” competed to come up with innovative big data solutions to three issues currently facing the US health care system.