Services
The Cancer Informatics Service is composed of the following tightly integrated services:
- Clinical Trials Management Tools (Key Staff: Davis and Gross)
A Java-based suite (accessed via a secure intranet) for managing various aspects of a clinical trial.
[read more about this service or download PDF brochure] - Tissue Banking and Pathology Tools (Key Staff: Schmandt)
A system which allows the Health Sciences Tissue Bank to be able to track what tissues are banked at an institutional level rather than locally at each site.
[read more about this service or download PDF brochure] - Registry Research Information Services (RIS) (Key Staff: Winters and Schneider)
Two distinct sub-divisions: one handling data collection and dissemination for clinical and hospital operational purposes and the other dedicated to specific efforts and data needs of the research community of the Centers of Excellence within the UPMC Cancer Centers and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
[read more about this service or download PDF brochure] - Honest Broker Services (HBS) (Key Staff: Winters)
A collaborative Honest Broker Service, developed for the combined Centers for Pathology and Oncology Informatics and Center for Pathology Quality and Healthcare Research.
[read more about this service or download PDF brochure] - Storage, Archival, and Network Services (Key Staff: Gross and McHugh)
Server and network structure support for services and research efforts - Web Services Infrastructure (Key Staff: Goldberg and Nguyen)
Creating, maintaining, and improving the web presence of the institutions it serves.
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CIS Services Within the Research Environment
