Research informatics and the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges, innovations, lessons learned, and recommendations.

ABSTRACT: The recipients of NIH's Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) have worked for over a decade to build informatics infrastructure in support of clinical and translational research. This infrastructure has proved invaluable for supporting responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic through direct patient care, clinical decision support, training researchers and practitioners, as well as public health surveillance and clinical research to levels that could not have been accomplished without the years of ground-laying work by the CTSAs. In this paper, we provide a perspective on our COVID-19 work and present relevant results of a survey of CTSA sites to broaden our understanding of the key features of their informatics programs, the informatics-related challenges they have experienced

SUBMITTER: Bookman RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8209435 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature