Applied Clinical Informatics
Clinical informatics seeks to bridge the gap between healthcare professionals and the electronic health record. The Applied Clinical Informatics team at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute seeks to advance the pediatric research community by leveraging the electronic health record for innovation and discoveries in research. Our team’s research and clinical informatics expertise will help you navigate the electronic health record and its products for research. We also collaborate with the other service lines in the Quantitative Science pillar and departments at Manne Research Institute. We aim to ensure that researchers have access to clinical informatics resources through all stages of the research process or point researchers to more appropriate resources.
Service Options
- Consultation Services: We are here to provide guidance and education on clinical informatics topics in research such as Slicer Dicer, Epic functionality supporting research, and Epic Cosmos (coming soon). For projects that do not have a well-defined request or build, we recommend requesting a consultation first.
- These services are free.
- Project Services: We can provide help with well-defined research clinical informatics projects.
- These services are billed at our hourly rate.
- Grant Development: We work with you during the design and development stage of your research project to create a plan for your clinical informatics needs.
- These services are free assuming the Applied Clinical Informatics team is budgeted in the final research proposal.
Example Services
- Epic Research Functionality: We can plan and build Epic research projects, such as tools to facilitate data collection (e.g., SmartForms, flowsheets) or Epic alerts and notifications (e.g., best practice alerts).
- Facilitating Epic Data Discovery: We can help identify where certain Epic data are located to ensure that your data queries are accurate and effective, or help prepare the facilitation of quantitative science data extractions.
- MyChart Recruitment: In partnership with the Office of Clinical and Community Trials and the Information Management team, we can assist in identifying and recruiting your study patients utilizing MyChart.
Our Partnership with the Office of Clinical and Community Trials
The Applied Clinical Informatics team partners with the Office of Clinical and Community Trials to leverage the expertise of both teams and ensure that overlapping services are supported effectively. There is significant internal collaboration between our teams for most services, however below you will find some services specific to the Office of Clinical and Community Trials:
- Epic research records
- research order sets
- billing protocols
If you are unsure which team is appropriate for your request, contact Quantsci@luriechildrens.org; a representative will assist you with getting started
Service Rates
View details on applied clinical informatics services for fiscal year 2025.
How to Engage with Applied Clinical Informatics
Researchers can request applied clinical informatics support by:
- Creating a profile in our platform (first time requestors only).
- Submitting a Quantitative Science service intake request form.
Contact Information
For help with your clinical informatics questions, please email Quantsci@luriechildrens.org.
