Cancer informatics focuses on the development, application, and evaluation of innovative informatics methods, models, and tools with the goal of improving cancer outcomes across the cancer care continuum. The advancement of cancer prevention, diagnostics, and treatments depends on clinical research and quality improvement efforts, as well as translational and broader population research. The University of Florida Health Cancer Center Cancer Informatics Shared Resource (CISR) is equipped to provide expertise and collaboration for investigators across the University of Florida, with a priority on cancer-focused studies.
Mission
To facilitate clinical care, quality improvements, and strategic planning, as well as cancer investigators to navigate the complex data and informatics resources including internal and external data sources as well as data management, processing, analytics, and informatics tools and methods
Shared Resource Aims and Focus Areas
Aims
- Development of standards and tools for data exchange and interoperability,
- Promote the academic software development community for innovative informatics capabilities,
- Engage cancer researchers to identify and prioritize informatics needs in cancer biology and clinical research,
- Ensure sustainable availability of critical standards-based, interoperable academic/commercial biomedical capabilities, and
- Make large and diverse cancer research data sets sustainably available for analysis, integration, and mining.
- Cancer Research Data Commons
- Cancer Informatics Tools and Methods
- Cancer Surveillance
- eHealth and mHealth: Digital Health
Services and Resources
Services
- Help investigators navigate the complex data resources (e.g., IDR and OneFlorida+) at the cancer center and UF campus.
- Data collection coordination for both clinical and observational studies.
- Cancer data discovery (e.g., FCDS, SEER-Medicare), modeling, and visualization.
- Cancer data geospatial analysis and geo-mapping.
- Web and mobile application development, deployment, and implementation of digital health interventions.
Resources
- OneFlorida+ Data Trust
- FCDS Data
- SEER-Medicare data (Cancer Sites: Breast, Lung, Prostate, Colorectal, Pancreas, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma)
- SEER
- MarketScan
- U.S. Census
- Programmers, development equipment, developmental licenses and server resource
- Exposome Data: State-of-the-art data on the natural, built, and social environment with high spatiotemporal resolution, e.g., air pollution, climate, noise, food access, green space, walkability, neighborhood SES, housing, vacant land, social capital, crime and safety
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Leadership
Jiang Bian, Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Informatics Shared Resource
Yi Guo, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Cancer Informatics Shared Resource
Shared Resource Faculty and Staff
CISR Faculty and Staff
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