About
Our Informatics team is dedicated to optimizing the conduct of high-quality clinical and translational research. We assist investigators during project conceptualization, grant submission, and deployment of secure data storage and processing methods.
We invite you to submit a consult request to connect with a UW School of Medicine and Public Health Informatics team member to discuss your clinical research study. Below are examples of how we can help.
Data queries and extraction:
Provide data from the UW Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) to research teams for a variety of clinical research purposes including feasibility, recruitment, and analysis.
Research computing and data storage:
Allows clinical investigators to have a secure environment to host and process data.
Data for research
We assist UW–Madison investigators obtaining clinical data for research from UW Health systems. Data types include:
- Preparatory to research counts
- Participant recruitment & enrollment
- Retrospective data for research
- Clinical data repositories and registries
These data can be used to support your research including feasibility assessments, recruitment of participants, pilot studies, and retrospective analyses.
We support data requests may require IRB approval or waiver depending upon whether the request contains only de-identified data, a limited data set, or fully identified data.
EHR development:
In partnership with UW Health Informatics Services, researchers can use Epic as a platform to support interventions, support recruitment, develop alerts, and facilitate research logistics at the point of care.
Some types and uses of EHR developments include:
- Data collection with SmarText, SmartForms
- Research protocols with Flowsheets, Order Sets
- Recruitment by using Best Practice Alerts (BPAs), Reporting Workbench
