Program Schedule

This half-day instructional workshop is a hands-on introduction to the ‘Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside’ (i2b2) data platform. It will provide an overview of the platform functionality and discuss approaches to analyze electronic health record (EHR), Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) and REDCap databases. Level of content is 70% novice and 30% intermediate. The workshop suited for researchers, clinicians, IT programmers, educators, leaders in healthcare participating in projects in health information technology. Intermediate and advanced users of i2b2 can benefit from a recap of the fundamentals and learn about new tools and approaches using i2b2. i2b2 has been deployed at over 300 institutions across the world to enable researchers to identify and characterize patient cohorts for clinical studies. The aim of the workshop is to introduce i2b2 to novice users with hand-on training, to educate the research community about the i2b2 data tooling, and to evolve good practice guides for i2b2.