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Office Hours
Office hours to answer questions and provide training are Wed 3:00-4:00pm and Fri 9:00-10:00am. Additional office hours are held the 2nd and 4th Tue of the month from 12:00-1:00pm. System issues and access requests can be reported through the Intake Form.
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REDCap
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a HIPAA complaint and secure web application which helps you in data collection and management. You can use REDCap for registry building, research and administrative operations, patient recruitment and quality improvement. This was created by Vanderbilt University to facilitate data acquisition and management for a wide variety of projects, especially Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved clinical research and basic research. Data collected in the course of the research are managed by the program and can be analyzed separately by commonly used statistical packages, including SAS, Stata, SPSS and R.
Additional Features
- Twilio: Is a third party service, helps you in contacting the subjects and collect data using via phone, text messages.
- MyCap: A two way communication mobile application. You can send surveys, alerts and messages to the subject’s REDCap MyCap mobile application. Similar way, subjects can answer the surveys over their mobile app or ask the questions.
- MU Only REDCap FHIR: Is a secure connection to the MUHC Medical Records System (PowerChart). Using FHIR connection researchers can pull health data into REDCap project for patients on daily basis.
- MU Only Activation of Incommon Login: At MU we are offering ‘Incommon Login’ feature for external collaborators/ researchers. The login to MU’s REDCap will be through the user’s university credentials. If you are an MU employee/student please reach out to informatics@health.missouri.edu for access
- As REDCap Administrators we do project building for you. Our charges for project/ database building are on hourly basis. You can find the costs at https://nextgenbmi.umsystem.edu/services/
Find end user documentation at University Missouri REDCap.
Fee structure for external REDCap modules
Initial Set up + Basic Maintenance Tier: Approximately 7 hours/ year = $546
Project-Specific Maintenance Tier: Hourly basi
Research Data Request System
We provide aggregated counts, de-identified, limited, identified data from the Outback data lake through our Honest Broker services. Learn more about our Healthcare Database (the Outback).
What does an end user need to request this service?
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- Data Domains you need for research. Review our PCORNet’s data dictionary to determine what entities might be useful for your data.
- IRB approval as per data type :
- Aggregated counts : No IRB approval
- De-identified: Need Non HSR determination approval email from IRB (request from https://ecompliance.missouri.edu/my/irb/reviews/new and select human-subjects-research-determination)
- Limited / Identified : Full IRB approval with HIPAA waiver and population selection criteria. Note: Researchers from MU and UMKC must go through MU IRB for limited or identified data
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- PI’s approval will be sent if requestor is not the PI
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- Inclusion and Exclusion criteria
- Sign our data use agreement
Service Costs:
Anything mentioned in our data dictionary and if the service scope is within 3 hours of our Honest Broker will be free of charges. Above 3 hours and entities not in data dictionary will be charged on hourly basis. Check our fees.
Timeline:
Our usual turn around time is 2-3 weeks. Depends on how quick we get all the entities needed per data type and work load of the research. Requests with additional data elements from source will take longer.
Disclaimer:
PHI’s requested must match the HIPAA waiver. Also, check the ‘Other Unique Identifiers’ field in HIPAA waiver if requesting for Visit Numbers/ FINs.
i2b2
Informatics for Integrating Biology and Bedside (i2b2) is an informatics framework to leverage existing data for cohort identification, retrospective data analysis, feasibility study and hypothesis generation. i2b2 is an open-source system that was originally developed at Partners HealthCare System in Boston, Massachusetts, through NIH funding. i2b2 provides an interactive tool for querying and exporting of data by end-users and does not require knowledge of any technical programming languages.
i2b2 is a self service, fasting computing and user friendly tool. Apart from just numbers you can also visualize with demographic, medications and diagnosis breakdowns and compare two population sets. You can find a demo at NextGenBiomedicalInformatics-PublicLibrary
ENACT
ENACT expands on the CTSA Consortium cohort discovery platform, ACT, allowing researchers and students at CTSA hubs to carry out electronic health record (EHR)-based studies on any disease or condition within a network of over 142 million patients.
As a participating CTSA institution, access to the ENACT i2b2 is available to University of Missouri System researchers to determine the aggregate total number of patients at participating hospitals who meet a given set of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Because counts are aggregate, patient privacy is protected.
De-identified Database + Remote Desktop
Through the package we are offering access to de-identified data set of MUHC population in the PCORnet Common data model. This comes along with a secured remote desktop to perform analysis using platforms like SAS, Python, R in either windows or Linux systems. The data base is de-identified with randomly shifted dates. There are different types of environments with various storage and computing sizes.
Find more information in NextGen BMI Services AWS Service Workbench
Access our wiki for more information on data sources, completeness and general guidance.
What does an end user need to request this service?
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- Non HSR determination approval email from IRB (request from https://ecompliance.missouri.edu/my/irb/reviews/new and select human-subjects-research-determination)
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- PI’s approval will be sent if requestor is not the PI
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- Submit de-identified data request if you need specific population
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- Sign our data use agreement
Environment Costs:
Currently, there is not cost for the use of environments.
Oracle EHR Real World Data
As a participant in Cerner’s Learning Health Network, our researchers and collaborators gain free access to Cerner’s Real-World Data multi-client de-identified research database. These data are available at no cost through an AWS-based data science environment featuring common open-source tools including Apache Spark™, Jupyter™, Python®, SparkR, PySpark and Spark SQL. Licenses are provided on a first-come, first-served basis for approved projects for a period of one month or as availability lasts. Preference is given to funded projects.
Access is limited to 3 months with the ability to resubmit for access.
Cerner Health Facts
Health Facts® is a de-identified research database comprising health-care data recorded during the course of day-to-day patient-care encounters and aggregated from health systems that contribute to the database. Cerner maps, merges and organizes the data into one database of consistent data elements suitable for research. Health Facts® incorporates data from 90 health systems and over 600 facilities located in the United States. Data are available through the end of 2018, and the environment is supported by the UMKC team.
MU’s OnCore Clinical Research Management System
MU supports use of the OnCore Clinical Trial Management System to streamline clinical trials research operations from pre-award through post-award. This tool allows you to gain visibility into all aspects of your research operations with a comprehensive, proven, standardized CRMS. Contact our Research Operations team for training and support.
Greater Plains Collaborative & PCORnet Research Network
NextGen BMI leads the Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) Clinical Research Network, which is part of PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network. Notably, the GPC maintains GROUSE, which combines multi-state Medicare and Medicaid claims with the EHR and registry data in PCORnet CDM format from the thirteen participating GPC health systems. These network collaborations provide the backbone and stakeholder engagement for many national and regional research programs. While you can visit our websites to learn more, please contact us locally first to help you strategize on going from local prototype to regional or national multicenter studies.
Healthcare Application Development, Electronic Health Record Integration and Clinical Decision Support
Our team has unique experience and expertise through our public/private innovation partnerships between Oracle Cerner Corporation and MU Health, the Tiger Institute, and Oracle Cerner and Truman Medical Center, the KC One Health Innovation Alliance. Together our team can work with you and our participating health systems to design, develop, integrate, deploy and measure the impact of innovation and decision support in our clinical information systems. This has supported federally funded research programs and fostered industry partnerships such as development of tumor board solutions with Roche.
Grant Proposal Development and Budgeting
Our team of informatics, data and engineering experts are available to collaborate on funded research opportunities. NextGen BMI will work with you to understand your research question, recommend collaborators and enhance your study design with cutting-edge data and informatics to make your proposal more competitive.
