Overview

Providing state-of-the-art informatics expertise to Emory and Children's investigators.

The Emory + Children’s Health Informatics Core (CHIC) provides state-of-the-art informatics expertise to investigators looking to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data and related technologies for funded research, multicenter collaboration, and interventions to promote health in children. The CHIC is divided into the three teams:

Data Delivery Team (DDT): aims to improve the efficiency of using EHR data for research.

Innovation Team (IT): aims to collaborate with researchers and innovators to produce new technology-enabled care that demonstrably improves outcomes.

Collaboration Team (CT): provides technical infrastructure to accelerate activities of both DDT and IT.

CHIC is committed to supporting pediatric researchers.  To ensure the high quality of completed data requests and to maintain the viability of the core, we have implemented the CHIC Data Delivery Awards, a subsidy application process for requests without adequate funding.

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Core rates are reviewed annually and may be adjusted to reflect current costs. Please consider potential cost adjustments when budgeting for long-term projects. You can find our current services and rates below:

Data extraction of discrete elements from the EHR and, in some cases, other CHOA clinical databases.

Rate: $100/hour

Involves significant transformation from source data, challenging linkages between data tables, and/or extraction of less commonly used data.

Rate: $110/hour

Development of reporting portal products for prospective study enrollment or recurrent prospective data access.

Rate: $90/hour

Development of new Epic tooling, including documentation tem[RC1] plates, notifications, and MyChart build. EHR-embedded, real-time reports, primarily used for prospective study enrollment.

Rate: $75/hour

Designing and building automated systems for data collection, storage, and submission.  Examples: Data warehousing, automated data updates, multi-center registry updates.

Rate: $90/hour

Development of new user-facing software applications.

Rate: $85/hour

User research, task analysis, design and evaluation of user interfaces.

Rate: $80/hour