Thank you for the introduction Dan. I would like to take a moment to introduce the informatics team from the University of Minnesota (UMN) and provide a little background on the Academic Health Center Information Exchange (AHC IE):
*Justin Dale - IT Manager, Systems Architect* Leads team of programmers and analysts focused on developing web-based software and data management solutions. Collaborates with healthcare and IT professionals to design systems, processes, and services that meet the diverse needs throughout the academic and research enterprise. Background includes 12+ years in software development, database design, and management. Phone: 612-624-9747 Email: [email protected] *Supreet Kathpalia - Clinical Data Analyst* Works closely with researchers and healthcare professionals to understand clinical data needs and translating those needs to IT. Leads efforts for clinical data standardization and terminology services, which has included converting internal lab and medication codes to LOINC and RxNorm. Certified in Epic and Clarity. Background includes 12+ years in a healthcare setting as both a therapist and data analyst. Phone: 612-624-5848 Email: [email protected] *Tim Meyer - ETL and Software Developer* Leads efforts related to the data transfer architecture/ETL with our partner health care systems. Serves as the technical lead for our CDR, analytics engine, and i2b2 installation. Background includes 8+ years in database design, analytics/reporting, and software development. Phone: 612-624-8386 Email: [email protected] *Academic Health Center Information Exchange* The UMN AHC IE is a platform of databases, applications, and analytical tools to support the operation of research across the enterprise. The underlying infrastructure, along with the continued development, is made possible largely due to the University's CTSA award. The primary source of clinical data that feeds our data repository comes from Fairview Health Systems, specifically Epic > Clarity. Fairview is Minnesota's 3rd largest healthcare system, with 9 hospitals and 40+ clinics. The University of Minnesota, along with the University of Minnesota Physicians (faculty practice group), have partnered with Fairview since 1997 when they took ownership of the University Medical Center and Children's hospitals. We continue to work together to expand our CDR by adding more categories of data from Epic > Clarity along with data from other ancillary systems. *Technology Stack* Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server ETL/Data Integration: Pentaho Kettle, SQL Server Integration services Web: Ruby on Rails, Cold Fusion, jQuery, Bootstrap Continuous Integration: Jenkins Source Control: SourceTree Issue Tracking/Project Management: Jira, Confluence I hope thats not TMI. We're very excited to be part of the GPC and look forward to meeting everyone in person at the Hackathon. Justin Dale
