i2b2CICTR project website

Welcome to the i2b2 Cross-Institutional Clinical Translational Research project (i2b2CICTR).

Mission:

This collaborative information exchange pilot project will adapt and extend data discovery tools and processes to enhance research design and retrospective data study capabilities for clinical translational investigators. The novel approach of this project will be to incrementally build a common technical, semantic and appropriately secure and governed distributed system in close partnership with active researchers at three large and geographically distributed academic medical centers. This collaboration will extend the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) software architecture developed by the Harvard based National Center for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) to support multi-institution data query capabilities. The anticipated outcome of this two-year project is to make high-level anonymized descriptive characteristics of population-level data discoverable for research design, hypothesis generation and retrospective data studies.