CTSC:ARRA.AdvisoryBoard.021511

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Harvard Catalyst Medical Informatics group, Advisory Board Meeting Minutes February 15, 2011

In attendance:

• Shawn Murphy
• Randy Gollub
• Chris Herrick
• Daniel Nigrin (phone)
• Diane Keough
• Valerie Humblet
• Sabune Winkler
• Scott Edmiston
• Kathy Andriole (phone)

1. Aim of mi2b2 project

• Shawn presented first a recall of the principal aim: The purpose of this Administrative Supplement project is to develop and disseminate additions to the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2)-based projects to hospitals that will allow clinical imaging data from sophisticated medical imaging modalities such as MRI, PET, ultrasound and high-speed CT to be used for secondary research purposes.
• He insisted that mi2b2 can be implemented at any institution, whether or not there is already i2b2 at that institution.
• The entire workflow needs to be IRB approved, each individual project needs to be approved.
• Right now there is no inter-site distribution of images.

2. Progress to date

• mi2b2 is up and running at CHB, BWH and MGH.
• the mi2b2 cell serves as a filter for request, it knows who is allowed to make request and on which patients. The cell then contact the PACS. Images comes out of the PACS at a buffer rate and are sent into a cache directory. The PI then can move the images from the cache to his own location where he will be working on the data.