Tuesday, June 23, 2015

i2b2 AUG Annual Meeting

Impressive opening session where we heard from a large set of users of i2b2 including (forgive me for selective memory and the Boston folks explicitly excluded):

  • at UNC/South Carolina and regionally
  • lots of work on biobanking
  • ACT network across CTSAs
  • Cancer Centers (e.g. the Kimmel Cancer Center)
  • University of Alabama (part of SHRINE) and Cimino
  • Deborah Batson from Colorado ensuring that good stuff is available to local researchers.
  • Microbiome data integrated with i2b2 in Germany. R Script.
  • October 9th- European i2b2 AUG meeting in Leicester, UK
  • TriNetX engaged in several productive contracts.
  • San Antonio (part of a PCORI) working on closing the gap between biostatistics and 
  • UC Davis, UCSF part of a large 
  • Autoimmune Foundation aligning multiple small groups.
  • Dan Baker at EPIC gave a lot of encouragement about collaboration and integration with i2b2
  • Adding statistical capabilities to the web client
  • Genomic full sequence integration with EHR
  • University of Florida (70+ papers published using i2b2)
  • Russ W. from Kansas spoke about a wide range of applications and Cerner integration.

Doug MacFadden gave an update on i2b2 SHRINE.

Nich demonstrated real-time 21-site (yes, twenty-one clinical sites) responding to queries. He also demonstrated vetting recruited patients through a new set of i2b2 plugins.

Ken talked about involving patients and recruiting patients with SMART apps.

Getting ready for the meeting

 

 

 

 


Shawn Murphy kicks off i2b2 AUG meeting