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Shared Pathology Informatics Network (SPIN)
With the goal of allowing cancer researchers to query standardized and de-identified electronic clinical record information to identify tissue blocks that could be used to test specific biologic hypotheses, the Institute has received NCI funding to extend the data collecting approach used in the INPC project and direct it toward cancer research. The five Indianapolis hospital systems have agreed to add de-identified pathology reports, discharge summaries, operative notes, radiology reports and inpatient medication records to the data set they are storing in their INPC vaults. The Indiana Public Health Department provides tumor registry data available under appropriate privacy constraints.
Grannis SJ, Overhage JM, McDonald CJ. “Analysis of Identifier Performance using a Deterministic Linkage Algorithm”, Proc AMIA Symp. 2002 (accepted). First author Sean Grannis, MD is a current medical informatics fellow.
Thomas SM, Mamlin B, Schadow G, McDonald CJ. “A Successful Technique for De-Identifying Pathology Reports Using an Augmented Search and Replace Method.” Proc AMIA Symp. 2002 (accepted). First author Sean Thomas MD is a recent and co-author Burke Mamlin, MD is a current medical informatics fellow.