Clinical research teams in the Buffalo Translational Consortium (BTC) have a powerful new tool for accessing the de-identified electronic health records (EHRs) of some 700,000 UBMD patients. (UBMD is the practice plan of UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.) Created by UB’s Institute for Healthcare Informatics (IHI), with the support of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), a new desktop dashboard connects investigators to the massive
i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) database from the convenience of their own desktops.