New Home for the USC Clinical Trials Office On January 1, 2016, the USC Clinical Trials Office (CTO) moved into the Keck School of Medicine. The School is committed to providing efficient, transparent and user-friendly service to investigators and research teams conducting clinical trials and other studies that require health system resources at USC. To
The research enterprise of the Keck School of Medicine is growing in size and complexity. To help lead our continued growth going forward, Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, approved the creation of two new associate dean positions, one focused on clinical research and the other focused on basic and translational research. I am pleased
In the last issue, I introduced two new clinical research tools in development, the Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) and the Research Data Warehouse. In this issue, I would like to let you know about three e-tools that are already in operation and designed to make your research better and easier. The three e-tools are
Finding USC researchers with active clinical trials has never been easier. In an effort to highlight clinical trials expertise at USC, SC CTSI has launched a new feature to our local expert finder tool, USC Health Sciences Profiles. Now it is easy to discover faculty members and postdoctoral scholars in the health sciences who are
To strengthen the cross-institutional research relationship between USC and CHLA, the SC CTSI is leading the development and implementation of a clinical data warehouse for research. The warehouse will aggregate information on demographics, diagnoses, medications, laboratory values, and imaging results from enterprise-wide EHRs into a single repository to allow the discovery, reuse and sharing of
USC and CHLA have purchased the clinical trials management system, OnCore, which is being deployed across USC and CHLA. OnCore will bring together data from multiple sources to help streamline the initiation, management, and financial accounting of clinical research studies. Keck Medicine CIO Joshua Lee is leading the implementation of OnCore, including the integration of
Computer-based medical informatics and electronic patient records represent an enormous but largely untapped opportunity for clinical research and collaboration. USC and CHLA are implementing a comprehensive electronic infrastructure that will interact with our electronic health record (EHR) systems helping researchers to access clinical data from the EHRs for IRB-approved research. There are two main components
