Research, Education, Administration, and Development of Biomedical Informatics (READi) Core

The Research, Education, Administration, and Development of Biomedical Informatics (READi) Core is the health informatics operations core for UNMC. READi provides cutting-edge clinical informatics resources to support and advance clinical translational research, public health research, clinical care, and the development of an exceptional clinical informatics workforce.

READI fulfills patient and population health data requests to the research community at UNMC and across the NU system, providing feasibility counts, recruitment lists, datasets, databases, and dashboards from a variety of data sources including the Nebraska Medicine and Children’s Nebraska electronic health records (EHR).

Getting Started

Prior to submitting a request, please review the core policies and general information about the services provided. Once you are ready and have documentation of IRB approval or exemption, you can submit your request via the READi Project Intake Form:

Who We Are

The focus of the READI Core is to support the research, education, administration, and development needs of UNMC and more broadly, the NU system and our hospital partners as follows:

• Research – Support NU faculty, students, and staff in health research initiatives by providing access to and assistance with real-world clinical data and related data sets to advance investigator-driven research efforts including translational research, public health research, implementation science, and clinical care delivery and quality improvement efforts.
  
  
• Education – Provide clinicians, research faculty, students, and staff educational services in health informatics. Provide broad educational services that address literacy, study design, data navigation, and use of electronic health record and other real-world clinical data sets.
  
  
• Administration – Provide a central organization for all health informatics research activities to simplify and improve access to EHR data and other related clinical data sets, provide a single point of entry for health informatics research activities using health data to eliminate confusion amongst clinicians, faculty, students, and staff regarding health informatics research resources and related domains including information technology guidance for health informatics research.
  
  
• Development – Provide the tools and infrastructure necessary to enable clinicians, faculty, students, and staff throughout the NU system, Nebraska Medicine, and Children’s Nebraska to pursue health informatics activities in research, clinical care, public health, and education.

Questions?

Email the core at readicoremailbox@unmc.edu