Dive Brief:
- Case Western Reserve, the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals have come together on a venture which will allow scientists and physicians to share clinical data usable for improving patient care.
- The venture, the Institute of Computational Biology, will build the technology infrastructure needed to make such data sharing possible.
- Geneticist Jonathan Haines, formerly of Vanderbilt University, has been named the institute's director, as well as chair of Case Western Reserve University medical school's department of epidemiology and biostatistics and the Mary W. Sheldon professor of genomic sciences.
Dive Insight:
With growing amounts of clinical data accumulating in EMRs, it makes sense that researchers find a way to share that data and use it to conduct advanced public health and genomic research. Academic organizations and government institutions alike are beginning to pull huge masses of data together in an effort to detect patterns and improve the process of care. Expect to see more announcements of this kind over the next year or two.