Computational, Digital & Data Services
BILH/BIDMC REDCap Core
REDCap is a web-based electronic data collection system that enables basic and clinical researchers, quality control staff, and administrators to create electronic data capture forms for simple to complex multi-arm studies or to utilize the web survey functionality to create quick, simple surveys or multi-variable, repeated surveys that are compliant with relevant HIPAA and IS security guidelines. This service is provided at no cost to the user and is supported by the Harvard Catalyst grant.
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Director: Stephen Berry
Phone: (617) 667-0710
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REDCap Specialist: Emily Merrill
Phone: (617) 667-0712
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BioDataBank Core
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BRIC (Biomedical Research Informatics Core)
The Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) builds and manages web-based tools that enable query, analysis, and visualization of clinical data. These include Clinical Query 2 (CQ2), which provides access to BIDMC’s clinical data warehouse, and the Shared Research Information Network (SHRINE), which queries databases at other institutions. Many investigators use CQ2 or SHRINE for preliminary or exploratory research before working with the InSIGHT Core for more complex data analyses.
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Director: Griffin Weber, MD, PhD
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InSIGHT (Integration of Standard Information Gathered using Healthcare Technology) Core
The InSIGHT Core helps researchers and quality im- provement teams use the vast array of data available in BIDMC’s clinical data repositories. We help you leverage these data to answer important questions, using tools of traditional clinical epidemiology and health services research. Services range from supplementing data in traditional clinical research (e.g. pulling admission laboratory test results for every patient in a cohort you have already collected) to building complete, high-complexity, large electronic cohorts for complex analyses.
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Director: Karla Pollick
Phone: (617) 975-7556
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Technical Director: Larry Markson, MD
Phone: (617) 754-8031
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MindLAMP Core
The LAMP Platform is a neuropsychiatric research and clinical care management platform designed to help you manage your research studies and digitally enabled clinics. The many robust components of the platform work together to automate your workflows and simplify clinic and data management. The LAMP Platform functions as 4 pieces, the App, the Dashboard, the Database, and Cortex.
App: The patient uses the native Android and Apple app for a variety of purposes customized to your needs. This can include taking real-time surveys, playing cognitive games, accessing helpful tips and resources, doing meditation and breathing exercises, etc; and when enabled and configured, the app can also collect sensor data from the mobile device's accelerometer, GPS, pedometer, and more in the background without interrupting the patient. It also collects metadata about the patient's use of the app, like how long certain questions took to answer in a survey, or which helpful tips they appreciated the most, and uploads the data securely to a server you or your organization owns (or the CORE hosts for you). All content (psychoeducation, surveys, interventions, and feedback) as well as sensors activated can be fully customized and toggled off/on. The CORE can support any use case desired from the app acting as a simple medication reminder to a customized after care support tool to a full digital phenotyping suite.
Dashboard: Clinicians and Researchers can create, customize, and schedule activities for patients or participants to interact and receive notifications, and tap into near-real-time information about patients to better inform decision making. The dashboard also allows for unique interactive features for specialized research or clinical-specific use. Additionally, the dashboard now has a fully functional Data Portal for an in-depth and comprehensive view of all patient and participant data. The CORE can support custom dashboards and reporting or help with use of the flexible default.
Database: The Database securely and chronologically indexes the data through the LAMP Protocol for programming and data science. It informs custom data analysis code in real-time that new patient data has arrived. Researchers can better build reusable tools, analysis pipelines, and conduct reproducible science, knowing that others around the globe using the LAMP Platform can easily work with their data or replicate their unique study. The CORE can provide support to host your own database or host your data in a private and secure manner.
Cortex: The Cortex data analysis pipeline is designed to easily hook into the Database and extract important and clinically useful secondary data features, such as sedentary behavior, time spent at home, device/screen usage, sleep estimates, and much more, from the terabytes of raw data. It can trigger custom just-in-time adaptive interventions and produce useful interactive visualizations viewable by patients and clinicians. The CORE can run default or custom analysis on your data.
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Director: John Torous, PhD
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Staff: Erlend Lane
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Statistical Support Core
The Statistical Support Core works in conjunction with Harvard Catalyst to provide statistical and epidemiological support for investigators throughout Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Services supported include statistical analysis for research projects and epidemiology as well as statistical support for grant preparation.
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Director: Anna Modest, PhD
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Clinical Research Executive Director: Douglas Reichgott
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Small Animal Imaging Facility
The Longwood Small Animal Imaging Facility (LSAIF) provides investigators with a streamlined system for the transport, testing and imaging of small animals used in research studies. High-quality bioluminescence imaging is available to scientists and the Core’s services extend to experimental design, advanced data analysis, and a satellite animal facility for longitudinal studies. In 2011, the Longwood SAIF expanded with the addition of the Animal Blood Testing Facility. Blood testing is a valuable tool that can reveal a wealth of data to investigators. Testing results measured against reference standards can show abnormalities, presence of disease, health of organs, and trends in experimental groups. The Blood Lab gives investigators access to a wide range of experimental tools, including Blood Gas, Chemistries, and Complete Blood Count (CBC) for virtually any small or large animal.
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Director: John (Seán) Clohessy, PhD
Phone: (617) 735-2147
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Research Assistant: Joseph Abirached
Phone: (617) 735-2131
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