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National Cancer Institute Biobanking/Biorepositories
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The National Cancer Institute’s pilot program to establish a multi-center, yet standardized,  biorepository of cancer specimens began with the prostate cancer Biorepository Coordination System (BCS).(1) This was a planned eleven institution physical and informational network linking individual institutional repositories of prostate cancer specimens into a giant, integrated resource with aims to improve research into prostate cancer biomarkers. The program was meant to be initiated in two stages, with progress reviews of the first stage occurring in January and April of 2006. (2) Unfortunately, the project was felt to not be cost effective and was subsequently abandoned.
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One survivor of the BCS project is the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). caBIG is both a network of over 80 collaborating organizations (including 50 National Cancer Institute-designated  as well as a collection of freely-available web-based software packages, including software to gather and process laboratory results including blood tests, micro-array data, and single nucleotide polymorphism data. (3)
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Current National Cancer Institute biorepository efforts have resulted in two ongoing  research projects. The Cancer Genome Atlas is a project to characterize the messenger RNA signatures of different tumors (4), while the Clinical Proteonomic Technologies Initiative is a corollary effort on characterizing the protein expression signature of tumors (5).
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These National Cancer Institute biorepository efforts have not only included “wet bench” projects and informatics programs, but also the development of ethical guidelines and patient protection statements. Foremost among these statements is the First-Generation Guidelines for NCI-Supported Biorepositories. (6)
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(1) NIH press release, November 7, 2005 < www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2005/nci-07c.htm>
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(2) http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/resources/faqs.asp
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(3) https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/participants
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(4) http://cancergenome.nih.gov/index.asp
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(5) http://proteomics.cancer.gov/
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(6) http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/
  
 
==Regional Health Information Organizations -- RHIOs== see [[RHIO]]
 
==Regional Health Information Organizations -- RHIOs== see [[RHIO]]

Revision as of 03:27, 19 November 2006

The Clinical Informatics Wiki -- Clinfowiki

The Clinical Informatics Wiki is an implementation of a wiki devoted to topics in clinical informatics. To begin a new article, or edit an existing article, you must first create an account and login to the ClinfoWiki.

Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.

You can test your edits as much as you want in the Sandbox.

We are currently working on 1,583 articles, and we need your help to complete this study of Clinical Informatics. See Special:Statistics for more complete information on the site.

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems

see EMR

==Computer-based Provider Order Entry -- CPOE== see CPOE

==Clinical Decision Support -- CDS== see CDS

==Personal Health Records -- PHRs== see PHR

Blueprint for a Comprehensive HIT System

==Biobanking -- a.k.a. Biorepositories or Tissue Banks == see BioBanking

National Cancer Institute Biobanking/Biorepositories

The National Cancer Institute’s pilot program to establish a multi-center, yet standardized, biorepository of cancer specimens began with the prostate cancer Biorepository Coordination System (BCS).(1) This was a planned eleven institution physical and informational network linking individual institutional repositories of prostate cancer specimens into a giant, integrated resource with aims to improve research into prostate cancer biomarkers. The program was meant to be initiated in two stages, with progress reviews of the first stage occurring in January and April of 2006. (2) Unfortunately, the project was felt to not be cost effective and was subsequently abandoned.

One survivor of the BCS project is the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). caBIG is both a network of over 80 collaborating organizations (including 50 National Cancer Institute-designated as well as a collection of freely-available web-based software packages, including software to gather and process laboratory results including blood tests, micro-array data, and single nucleotide polymorphism data. (3)

Current National Cancer Institute biorepository efforts have resulted in two ongoing research projects. The Cancer Genome Atlas is a project to characterize the messenger RNA signatures of different tumors (4), while the Clinical Proteonomic Technologies Initiative is a corollary effort on characterizing the protein expression signature of tumors (5).

These National Cancer Institute biorepository efforts have not only included “wet bench” projects and informatics programs, but also the development of ethical guidelines and patient protection statements. Foremost among these statements is the First-Generation Guidelines for NCI-Supported Biorepositories. (6)


(1) NIH press release, November 7, 2005 < www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov2005/nci-07c.htm>

(2) http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/resources/faqs.asp

(3) https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/participants

(4) http://cancergenome.nih.gov/index.asp

(5) http://proteomics.cancer.gov/

(6) http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/

==Regional Health Information Organizations -- RHIOs== see RHIO

==Evidence-Based Medicine -- EBM== see EBM

U.S. Federal Health Information Technology Initiatives

The E-Patient-Provider Relationship

Interface Terminology

International views

Blogposium, April 2006

The Blogposium, held from April 18-20, was an innovation in collaborative blogging and wiki building.

The effort marshalled the expertise and energy of several dozen health bloggers and volunteers to expand and refine this Clinical Informatics Wiki. Bloggers posted their first drafts of entries as posts or links to this wiki and invited readers to provide comments and edit suggestions.

While many bloggers and readers contributed to this Web 2.0 innovation in collaborative work, key participants included the follow blogs. Please visit them and thank them for their contributions:

Reviews of Recent articles on Clinical Informatics

See Reviews

Endowed Professorships and Chairs in Health / Medical / Nursing / Biomedical Informatics

see Endowed Professorships

External Links

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