Open AccessResearch Integrated Network of Systems (RINS): a virtual data warehouse for the acceleration of translational research
Author(s) -
Wenjun He,
Katie Kirchoff,
Royce Sampson,
Kimberly McGhee,
Andrew Cates,
Jihad S. Obeid,
Leslie A. Lenert
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocab023
Subject(s) - computer science , identifier , system integration , data warehouse , disparate system , data science , translational research , data integration , fragmentation (computing) , data access , database , medicine , pathology , programming language , operating system
Integrated, real-time data are crucial to evaluate translational efforts to accelerate innovation into care. Too often, however, needed data are fragmented in disparate systems. The South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) developed and implemented a universal study identifier-the Research Master Identifier (RMID)-for tracking research studies across disparate systems and a data warehouse-inspired model-the Research Integrated Network of Systems (RINS)-for integrating data from those systems.