NCATS will host two virtual stakeholder roundtable discussions on the topic of strategic planning for 2024 through 2029. The meetings will include an overview of the vision for the center from NCATS Director Joni L. Rutter, PhD; information on the strategic planning process; and small group discussion.

NCATS’ stakeholders include, but are not limited to, patients and members of the health advocacy community; basic, translational and clinical scientists at universities and research institutions; health care providers; biotechnology, venture capital and pharmaceutical industry members; colleagues at other NIH institutes, centers and offices; partners at other government agencies; policymakers; and the public.

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NCATS will host two virtual stakeholder roundtable discussions on the topic of strategic planning for 2024 through 2029. The meetings will include an overview of the vision for the center from NCATS Director Joni L. Rutter, PhD; information on the strategic planning process; and small group discussion.

NCATS’ stakeholders include, but are not limited to, patients and members of the health advocacy community; basic, translational and clinical scientists at universities and research institutions; health care providers; biotechnology, venture capital and pharmaceutical industry members; colleagues at other NIH institutes, centers and offices; partners at other government agencies; policymakers; and the public.

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Recent advances in technology have simplified the creation, collection, storage, and analysis of health care data. However, researchers and clinicians are still working to realize the potential of this data.

The UNC Program on Health and Clinical Informatics (PHCI), North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, and Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) are presenting a seminar series in May 2023 that will provide an introduction to working with electronic health care data. Each Wednesday from May 10 through May 31, 2023 features a presentation from 2:30-4:00 p.m., followed by Q&A on your research project with NC TraCS analysts from 4:00-4:30 p.m.

Audience

• Graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and clinicians who are interested in research using clinical data from UNC's EHR system and the Carolina Data Warehouse

Location & Times

• Wednesdays: May 10, 17, 24, and 31, 2023
• 2:30-4:00pm Brinkhous-Bullitt 219 or by Zoom
• 4:00-4:30pm office hours Q&A with NC TraCS analysts, in-person only at Brinkhous-Bullitt 219

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Learning Objectives

1. Week 1: Understand the basics of how the US health care system generates data and how this data is stored in the EHR.
2. Week 2: Describe the code sets used to record health care data.
3. Week 3: Recognize the fundamental units of how health care data is organized in the EHR.
4. Week 4: Understand how to design a research question for clinical data. Identify resources at UNC that support clinical data research.

Content

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Design and Pragmatic Trial of COACH: A Patient Portal/EHR Information System for Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Hypertension

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Richelle J. Koopman, MD, MS
Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Faculty Affairs
Jack M. and Winifred S. Colwill Endowed Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Missouri

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