AITC participates in national NIH committees

AITC director Bill Barnett has joined NIH's CTSA national consortium' s Communications and Infomatics Key Function Committees.

AITC achieves HIPAA alignment of RT systems and services

AITC has concluded a careful, rigorous, year-long process including formal risk and gap analyses by an external third party, comprehensive documentation of policies and procedures, and ongoing risk management planning to ensure the security of HIPAA-regulated electronic protected health information (ePHI) on RT systems. (ePHI is any patient data that contains identifiable personal information.) This is enabling Health Care and related sciences researchers at IU to make use of RT's considerable storage, database, virtual server, supercomputer, and visualization resources.

News

June 2009

AITC helps patients by shortening the "bench to bedside" process

AITC is leading the development of cyberinfrastructure for the newly created "Indiana Center for Translational Sciences Institute" (ICTSI). (Translational here refers to the process of "translating" biomedical research conducted on the "bench", i.e. laboratories, to "bedside", i.e. real-life patient treatment.) Started in 2008, the institute was made possible by a pretigious $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the IU School of Medicine. The ICTSI Hub will act as a focal point for the institute and serve both researchers and the larger community in the state of Indiana. It uses the HUBzero software developed at Purdue University designed specifically to help a scientific community share resources and work together with one another. AITC, working in concert with other IU units, is developing technologies to add functionality to the HUBzero framework that are customized for translational Life Sciences.

AITC to provide cyberinfrastructure for tooth decay research

AITC is providing data storage and visualization resources to an NIH funded grant to PI Dr. Masatoshi Ando in the Oral Health Institute at IUPUI. This research study will use extensive patient data obtained through imaging as well as ? to provide a quantitative measure of the process by which dental caries evolve.

March 2009

AITC launches a new and improved web site

The new site features a more usable menu, categorizes menu items more coherently, provides a easily navigable table of AITC's HIPAA aligned services, etc. Please email feedback about the new site to ashankar@iupui.edu.

AITC director co-presents at NCHICA

Bill Barnett, the AITC director, co-presented a talk that included our HIPAA compliance work for medical research at the meeting of the North Carolina Health Information and Communication Alliance (NCHICA) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

February 2009

AITC director presents at NET@EDU

Bill Barnett, the AITC director, presented a talk about our HIPAA compliance work for medical research at the EDUCAUSE NET@EDU conference in Tempe, Arizona.

A new life sciences internship in launched

A new IU internship program will provide students with valuable experience on the business side of life sciences information technology, while interns apply traditional business techniques toward helping AITC advance IU medical and life sciences research. The joint internship program, being offered by the IU Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) and the Center for the Business of Life Sciences (CBLS) at the Kelley School of Business, will employ a total of six student interns on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses during the spring 2009 semester.

January 2009

AITC services become HIPAA aligned

The AITC achieved the IU Office of Research Administration's stamp of confidence in its ability to handle electronic protected health information on its systems. (See also HIPAA & AITC.)