Clinical Informatics
NC TraCS
Description
The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is the NCATS-funded CTSA at UNC. NC TraCS supports, funds, and connects the translational research community to improve the way biomedical research is conducted in North Carolina and across the country. RENCI leadership has served the NC TraCS Institute since 2011 as director of the Informatics and Data Science (IDSci) Component.
RENCI's Role
RENCI leadership works closely with the TraCS IDSci team and provides data science guidance, help in developing new projects, and collaborating on research. Examples of joint RENCI-TraCS projects include the Data Translator, the ICEES+ COVID-19 open-API data service, privacy-preserving record linkage methods and code, computational phenotyping, CLARK - NLP tools for analyzing clinical notes, CAMP-FHIR and FHIR-PIT for mapping clinical data to FHIR and integrating with external data such as environmental data.