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Biomedical Informatics

SCTR’s Health Informatics program provides investigators with ready access to a variety of software tools, databases, and support systems to facilitate the performance of clinical and translational research and advance clinical and translational science.  

Services

A few of the informatics resources available to investigators is listed below.  

  • REDCap Database Support
  • REDCap Survey Support
  • Clinical Data Warehouse Services for Research
  • Bioinformatics Consultations
  • Informatics Consultations

Request a Service

To request an Informatics consultation or service, visit SPARCRequest and select “Biomedical Informatics Center” under the SCTR Service Catalog.

Highlights

  • Implementation of REDCap data capture software; a tool developed by Vanderbilt University providing secure, web-based applications to support research studies data gathering needs.
  • Development of the software solutions for SCTR applications, such as SPARC, the MUSC approval Plans for Research tool (MAP-R), the Research Toolkit & the Clinical Trials Registry.
  • Click Commerce, the consolidated eIRB system, implementation at MUSC as well as multiple other institutions including USC, Greenville Hospital System, Spartanburg Regional Hospital System, and Palmetto Health.
  • Provision of Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW) services for research; exploration of electronic medical data while protecting patient confidentiality and data security, using IRB approved methodologies and serving IRB approved research protocols.
  • Research Data Overview and Research Data Requests

Useful Links

Directors

Les A. Lenert, M.D., MS, FACP, FACMI

Director
mail lenert@musc.edu

Jihad Obeid, M.D.

Assistant Vice President for Research – AI Strategy & Research Intelligence
Director, Cancer Integrated Data Enabled Resource (CIDER), MUSC Hollings Cancer Center
Professor and SmartState Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics, Public Health Sciences
mail jobeid@musc.edu call 843-792-0272 View Faculty Profile open_in_new View Research Profile open_in_new

Dr. Obeid is a Professor and SmartState Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Obeid is a pediatrician who was formally trained in Medical Informatics at the Division of Health Sciences and Technology, a joint Harvard-MIT fellowship program.

He served as the Associate Director of the Biomedical Informatics Center (BMIC) for over a decade where he led the development of several academic and operational research informatics initiatives including the electronic health records (EHR) Research Data Warehouse (RDW), REDCap, and many others. Since his arrival at MUSC, he has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, and informatics leader on numerous federally funded projects. At the national level, he led several working groups related to translational research informatics. Dr. Obeid is the founder and director of two courses in Biomedical Informatics (MCR-746: Informatics and Data Management for Clinical Research and BDSI-712: Translational Informatics).

His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), specifically, deep learning and large language models applications using EHR data for e-phenotyping and predictive modeling with focus on clinical text mining. Other research interests include natural language processing, electronic consents, secondary use of EHR data/data warehousing, and biomedical ontologies.

Dr. Obeid is the co-founder of the AI Hub at MUSC. He serves as the director of the Cancer Integrated Data-Enabled Resource (CIDER), which integrates a variety of multimodal data, and provides several services to researchers including, consultations, feasibility queries, brokered access to integrated data, and AI and NLP research services.

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