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