Protecting the Vulnerable, Informing the Future

In the early days of the COVID pandemic, members of the UR CTSI partnered with the URMC Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and the Mary Cariola Center to study how COVID spread, so they could protect kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

UR CTSI Offers Safer, More Secure Way to Share, Analyze Patient Data

UR CTSI and ISD worked together to develop the Secure Environment for Research Data Analytics, also known as SERDA, to help researchers access and analyze data containing protected health information in a compliant manner.

Region Pioneers Use of Electronic Medical Records for Community Wellness and Health Equity

An unusual collaboration among three regional data teams, including the UR CTSI, has cut through legal and technical challenges to leverage electronic medical records for population health reporting in the recently-released Community Health Indicators report.

UR CTSI Researchers Find Nationwide Links Between Vaping and COVID-19

Analyzing population data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UR CTSI Biostatistician Dongmei Li, Ph.D., found that states with more vapers had larger numbers of daily coronavirus cases and deaths in the early weeks of the pandemic.

New Cohort Discovery Tools Available to UR Researchers Via TriNetX

University of Rochester researchers can now access a new set of analytic tools and an expanded network database of over 60 million patients through TriNetX, a cohort discovery tool launched at the university last year.