The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Improvement and Research (RCHIR) was founded in July 2007 by the Regenstrief Institute with initial funding from the Regenstrief Foundation to serve the current and looming demand for data management, retrieval, and analyses. The center enhances the content and use of clinical data repositories for quality improvement and epidemiological research. RCHIR is a center within the Regenstrief Institute that brings together the complementary expertise of users and producers of information critical to care improvement and research.

Leadership of RCHIR includes the Executive Director, William Tierney, MD, the RCHIR operations director, Marc Rosenman, MD, and the RCHIR Director for Community Outreach, David Marrero, PhD. The center also includes support staff, data analysts, Masters level and PhD biostatisticians, and in the near future, an epidemiologist and a health economist.

Over the years the Regenstrief Institute has focused its primary attention and resources on acquiring comprehensive data for its various repositories. The new center provides the resources and partnerships necessary to intelligently, productively, and responsively mine these data for a broad array of customers. The data core team within RCHIR provides timely data extraction, analysis, interpretation and reporting to its customers who benefit greatly from having the right information for a particular purpose in a timely manner.

Some examples of information that the center provides are risk profiles, market projections, surveillance reports, clinical activity analyses, pre-research information, research data support, support for recruiting research subjects, and other deliverables required for facile adaptation and success in the rapidly evolving health care quality and translational research marketplaces.