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Blog from July, 2014
SYNOPSIS: The NIH Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS) comprises a repository of clinical research data and a set of tools for NIH investigators to access those data. BTRIS data sources include the NIH Clinical Center’s past (1976-2004) and current (2004-present) electronic health record systems and a number of NIH institute systems, including two NCI systems (LabMatrix and C3D). Tools include a reporting facility for obtaining identifiable protocol-specific data from active clinical protocols and a query facility for obtaining de-identified data sets from across all active and terminated protocols. The presentation will describe the system architecture (including the BTRIS data model and ontology), the reporting and querying tools, and policy issues related to use and re-use of the data.
BIO:
James Cimino, M.D., is a board certified internist who completed a National Library of Medicine (NLM) informatics fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Following his fellowship, he accepted an academic position at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
Dr. Cimino joined the NIH in 2008, where he now serves as the Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development and a Tenured Investigator at the NIH Clinical Center and the NLM. His principal project involves the development of the Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS), an NIH-wide clinical research data resource. Additionally, he conducts clinical informatics research, directs the NLM's postdoctoral training program in clinical informatics, serves as an internal medicine consultant in the Clinical Center, and teaches as an Adjunct Professor at both Columbia and Georgetown universities. Dr. Cimino is also co-editor of a leading textbook on Biomedical Informatics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
SUMMARY:
Topic: The NIH Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS)
Speaker: James J. Cimino, M.D.
Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM EDT
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist 
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About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS: The Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) is a non-profit international organization with the purpose of promoting excellence in the quality and integrity of clinical and basic scientific research in the field of gynecologic malignancies. Approximately 45 individual clinical trials are active at any one time within GOG for patients with a variety of gynecologic malignancies, including cancers that arise from the ovaries, uterus, and cervix. The GOG has recently joined with the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project and the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group to form NRG Oncology.
The GOG developed a Web-based data entry system utilizing Cardiff TELEForms, JavaScript, ASP, and ASP.NET/C#. The eCRFs are designed in TELEForms and displayed via secured session SSL Web browsing session to the user in PDF format. The questions residing on the PDF forms are CDE compliant questions and the underlying logic is based upon the valid/permissible values contained within the CDE database. The years of experience using the CDE browser positioned GOG to easily adapt to the use of CDEs within the GOG’s instance of RAVE and carry this knowledge through to the NRG. During the transition to RAVE, the IT staff worked closely with the NCI, CTEP, and CTSU staff to develop methods for the Lead Protocol Organizations (LPOs) to capture NCI eCRF standard within their local terms and derive those values to the NCI standard fields or the reverse. This enables the data reported back to CTEP to be provided in caDSR values while allowing the LPOs to continue leveraging existing processes.
BIO:
Bill Elgie is the Director of Information Technology at the NRG-Buffalo and Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) SDMC Offices located within the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. His 30 year career in the information technology field includes over 20 years of directorship and management of computer professionals in the areas involving cancer and AIDS clinical trials research. Prior to joining GOG, Mr. Elgie was the Director of Technical Operations at the Frontier Science and Technology Research Foundation, Inc. in Amherst, New York. He received a B.A. in Computer Science in 1984 and an M.B.A. in 1994, both from Canisius College.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Evolution of Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) Use of caDSR From eCRFs to Rave
Speaker: Bill Elgie
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM EDT
You are invited to listen to Mr. Elgie's presentation in Room 2W908 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist . The presentation slides are also attached.
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
