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The NYU-HHC Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and CHIBI Announce the Establishment of the Clinical and Research Informatics Data Management Unit

November 02, 2009

The New York University Langone Medical Center (NYULMC) announces the establishment of the Clinical and Research Informatics Data Management Unit to provide comprehensive data management and database development capabilities at NYULMC.

Leading to launching the new unit, Velos, a commercial clinical research data system widely used by medical centers and academic institutions has been purchased to be the core clinical research software product across the NYULMC. Velos is a comprehensive product with several clinical research modules and functions. The goal of this new unit is to provide an infrastructure that allows individual clinical research investigators as well as departments, divisions, and labs to develop study databases, data acquisition and management systems, and research registries using software that is compliant with all state-of-the-art requirements and national standards for secure data management. The Clinical and Research Informatics Data Management Unit consists of experienced data managers and programmers working under the direction of Jim Robinson. The new unit will function as a part of the Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics within the broad umbrella of CTSI activities and in close collaboration with the MCIT department which was instrumental in developing the unit’s function and shares implementation responsibilities for Velos.

Because of the size and scope of the project and the comprehensiveness of Velos, the first several months will be dedicated to internal Velos training and, developing a comprehensive external training program for departments, research investigators and their teams. During this time we will also establish policies and procedures, develop standards, begin a “Forms Library” that allows researchers to select previously developed and programmed forms, and conduct a small number of projects to fully explore as many of the Velos capabilities as possible.

This unit is available to work with investigators in the preparation of grants and proposals. The unit can also provide comprehensive clinical and research database systems development, and data management services on a fee for service basis for investigators who want to outsource clinical research study support. Finally for researchers with multi-modal data that span both clinical and molecular information the unit works with CHIBI faculty with experience in molecular data storage and management to provide custom solutions.

If you would like more information or wish to discuss support for a study, please e-mail Jim Robinson at James.Robinson@nyumc.org or robinson@nki.rfmh.org or call (845) 398-6506.