The recently established Divisions of Biomedical Informatics (DBI) in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Academic Information Systems in Information Resources have embarked on an ambitious project to develop an integrated UT Southwestern Clinical Research Information System (utCRIS) to support the data management and data analysis needs of clinical and translational investigators at UT Southwestern and our partner institutions. The goal is not only to provide a robust system for investigators to store, track and access their data, but also to integrate these data with the vast amounts of information available from institutional systems as well as through public data repositories and to support the mining and analysis of these integrated data sets with state‑of‑the‑art algorithms and software tools. 

    The Clinical Research Informatics System (utCRIS) team will design, develop and implement an enabling infrastructure for clinical and translational research data capture, management and analysis that is comprehensive and extensible.

The scope of utCRIS is to provide the following:

• A robust clinical trials management system
• A comprehensive secure information system infrastructure to capture and manage clinical and translational research data.
• Integration of campus-wide clinical and translational research data with data and knowledge from external public database resources.
• Reinforcement for clinical and translational research data analysis by providing software analytical tools and support for those tools.
• Training, educate and support for the use of utCRIS

    utCRIS, as a whole, will consist of many projects and deliverables, including a Research Data Warehouse, Research Portal Web, a Clinical Research Management Applications, data analysis infrastructure, plus research support and training programs.