Health 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