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Presented by, Aarti Vaishnav, MS CRIC Director. CRIC Cancer Research Informatics Core University of Southern California. Who we are :. We are a team of 13 full time programmers and about 10 part time students. Different Stake Holders. USC Norris Cancer Center USC Cancer Hospital
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Presented by, Aarti Vaishnav, MS CRIC Director CRIC Cancer Research Informatics CoreUniversity of Southern California
Who we are : We are a team of 13 full time programmers and about 10 part time students.
Different Stake Holders • USC Norris Cancer Center • USC Cancer Hospital • LAC-USC County Hospital • CHLA • CTSA – USC • Preventive Medicine Dept (Epidemiology and Population Studies)
What we Do : Patient Registry Cancer Center Website Scientific Committee (CIC) EMR Systems Protocol Management Tools Publication Management QA Committee IRB Systems Protocol CRF Membership Data DSMB Committee Red Cap Population Based Studies Grant Data Management Shared Resource Support Clinical trials Billing systems CTRP/Clinical Trials.gov Document Management Specimen Management Hospital Registry DB
What we do not do : • Manage Servers • Provide PC Support We have moved these tasks to a centralized USC KECK IT Support Team since middle of last year.
CISO : Clinical Investigator Support Office • CISO serves as a centralized unit to oversee the clinical research infrastructure and assist investigators in their conduct of clinical trials and translational research projects • Staff : 60 + • Investigator Initiated Protocols : 49 • Total Open protocols : 170
CISO Specific Activities • Support Patient Registry • Data collection for all in house (Investigator Initiated Trials) • Summary Reports • Protocol Tracking and Management • Document Management • Interaction with istar (IRB) • User support
CISO Related Committees • CIC : Clinical Investigation Committee • DSMC : Data Safety Monitoring Committee • QAC : Quality Assurance Committee • Phase I Committee All reports used by these committees are generated by CRIC.
CC Administration • Manage CC Website • Support all other cores (automated ordering, tracking and management) • Manage CC Member data • Manage Publications data • Manage Grants/Proposal data
Recharge projects: • Lab/Specimen Management projects • Prevention studies • Disease Specific cohort projects • Support Consortium databases (ex : NANT) • Other Misc projects.
How do we support all these efforts ? We use a in-house developed framework called CAFÉ: Common Application Framework Extensible CAFÉ uses VB.net and SQL server We use SQL Reporting Services for all Reports
CAFÉ Key Features Integrated Features • Record Locking • Integrated Reports • Dash boards • Easy Deployment • Reusability of forms • Automated Data dictionaries • Audit Trail • Access Tracking • Role based Security • Automated Message System • Fully Customizable • Remote Login
CAFÉ Projects (2004 – 2011) Over a 100 Café Projects have been created over the last 5 years to support various types of Research Activities at USC.
Free Café Licensing. We are working on making free CAFÉ license available to anyone who wants to use it. License will be available by May 2011. Please contact : AartiVaishnav Director, Cancer Research Informatics Core 3234427711 aartiv@usc.edu
Any Questions ??? For additional Information, please visit: http://cafe.usc.edu