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Crossing the chasm: information technology to biomedical informatics.

Brenda G Fahy¹, C William Balke, Gloria H Umberger

¹Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.

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Developing integrated biomedical informatics infrastructure is key to accelerating medical research translation. This initiative created a specialized center, linking clinical informatics with enterprise systems to advance health outcomes.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Informatics
Translational Science
Health IT Integration

Background:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap aims to speed up medical discoveries for better health outcomes.
The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program supports institutions in advancing translational research.
Biomedical informatics is crucial for achieving NIH's translational research goals, requiring integration with clinical operations.

Purpose of the Study:

To detail a transdisciplinary initiative at an academic health center to establish an integrated biomedical informatics discipline.
To describe the development of infrastructure supporting clinical and translational science in response to the CTSA mechanism.
To outline the creation of a specialized Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI).

Main Methods:

Developing a comprehensive informatics strategy to guide the initiative.
Establishing the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBI) as a specialized core.
Integrating medical informatics, quality and safety informatics, and enterprise clinical information systems within the CBI.

Main Results:

Successful development of a biomedical informatics infrastructure.
Integration of the informatics infrastructure with existing clinical systems at the academic health center.
Identification of successes and barriers encountered during the development and integration process.

Conclusions:

An integrated biomedical informatics infrastructure is essential for advancing translational science.
The creation of a dedicated center (CBI) facilitated the incorporation of diverse informatics components.
Linking informatics with clinical operations is vital for optimizing its effectiveness in academic health centers.