Clinical Informatics

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Biomedical Informatics addresses issues arising from the collection, management, access to, and analysis of clinical information for research and healthcare purposes. We engage Stony Brook University Hospital and its affiliates to drive our development of novel Biomedical Informatics concepts, methods, and tools. Current movements in patient safety and quality, transitions of care, Medicaid reform, and operational informatics inform this exciting, innovative, and creative space with Clinical and Business Intelligence (CBI). We are involved in shaping progressive transitions from data sources to performance management, and in setting directions for systems infrastructure, applications, data warehouses, and business intelligence models.  We derive best practice solutions from CBI to continuously improve the care and health of patients in our community.

People

Joel Saltz, Laura Fochtmann, Janos Hajagos, Gerald Kelly, Tahsin Kurc, Mary M. Saltz, William Dan Roberts

Related Publications

  • A. Post, T. Kurc, S. Cholleti, J. Gao, X. Lin, W. Bornstein, D. Cantrell, D. Levine, S. Hohmann, J. Saltz: The Analytic Information Warehouse (AIW): A platform for analytics using electronic health record data, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 46(3), pp. 410-424, 2013. [paper]
  • A. Post, T. Kurc, R. Willard, H. Rathod, M. Mansour, A. Pai, W. Torian, S. Agravat, S. Sturm, J. Saltz, “Temporal Abstraction-based Clinical Phenotyping with Eureka!”, accepted for presentation and publication at the AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium, 2013.
  • J. Brown, M. Ahamad, M. Ahmed, D. Blough, T. Kurc, A. Post, and J. Saltz, "Redactable and Auditable Data Access for Bioinformatics Research," Proceedings of the AMIA Summit on Clinical Research Informatics, pp. 21-25, 2013. [paper]
  • Post A, Kurc T, Overcash M, Cantrell D, Morris T, Eckerson K, Tsui C, Willey T, Quyyumi A, Eapen D, Umpierrez G, Ziemer D, Saltz J. A Temporal Abstraction-based Extract, Transform and Load Process for Creating Registry Databases for Research. AMIA Joint Clinical Research Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics Summit; San Francisco, 2011. [paper]
  • Winslow, R. L., Saltz, J., Foster, I., Carr, J. J., Ge, Y., Miller, M. I, Younes, L., Geman, D., Graniote, S., Kurc, T., Madduri, R., Ratnanather, T., Larkin, J., Ardekani, S., Brown, T., Kolasny, A., Reynolds, K., Shipway, M., Toerper, M. (2011) The CardioVascular Research Grid (CVRG) Project, Proceedings of the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, 2011, pgs. 77-81. [paper]
  • Post A, Kurc T, Butler J, Saltz J. Architecture of an Analytic Information Warehouse for Discovering Risk Factor Models of Disease in Quality Improvement and Research. American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. San Francisco, CA; 2010.
  • M. Kim, J. Cobb, M.J. Harrold, T. Kurc, A. Orso, J. Saltz, A. Post, K. Malhotra and S. Navathe, "Efficient Regression Testing of Ontology-Driven Systems", Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2012). [paper]
  • A. Mohan, D. Blough, T. Kurc, A. Post, and J. Saltz, "Detection of Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Taxonomy-based Authorization Policies," Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, pp. 590-594, 2011. [paper]
  • Kim M, Kurc T, Orso A, Cobb J, Gutman D, Harrold M, Sharma A, Post A, Saltz J. An Informatics Framework for Testing Data Integrity and Correctness of Federated Biomedical Databases. AMIA Joint Clinical Research Informatics and Translational Bioinformatics Summit; San Francisco. 2011. [paper]
  • T. Kurc, S. Hastings, V.S. Kumar, S. Langella, A. Sharma, T. Pan, S. Oster, D. Ervin, J. Permar, S. Narayanan, Y. Gil, E. Deelman, M. Hall and J. Saltz: HPC and Grid Computing for Integrative Biomedical Research. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Special Issue, the Workshop on Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing, Vol. 23(3), pp. 252-264, 2009. [paper]
  • S. Langella, S. Hastings, S. Oster, T. Pan, A. Sharma, J. Permar, D. Ervin, B. Cambazoglu, T. Kurc, and J. Saltz, ”Sharing Data and Analytical Resources Securely in a Biomedical Research Grid Environment”, Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 15(3), pp. 363-373, 2008. [paper]
  • S. Oster, S. Langella, S. L. Hastings, D. W. Ervin, R. Madduri, J. Phillips, T. Kurc, F. Siebenlist, P. A. Covitz, K. Shanbhag, I. Foster, J. H. Saltz, ”caGrid 1.0: An Enterprise Grid Infrastructure for Biomedical Research”, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol. 15, pp. 138-149, 2008. [paper]
  • S. Langella, S. Oster, S. Hastings, F. Siebenlist, J. Phillips, D. Ervin, J. Permar, T. Kurc, J. Saltz, The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Security Infrastructure, The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium, November 2007. [paper]
  • S. Oster, S. Langella, S. Hastings, E. David, R. Madduri, T. Kurc, F. Siebenlist, I. Foster, K. Shanbhag, P. Covitz, J. Saltz, caGrid 1.0: A Grid Enterprise Architecture for Cancer Research, The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium, November 2007. [paper]