Welcome

The future direction of the BRIA is to continue as leaders in the use of computing technologies in patient-orientated research that is carried out in academic medical centers. We intend to increase our knowledge base both technically and theoretically in two overlapping areas: informatics and bioninformatics.

Areas of informatics we will develop include web-based technologies, innovative methods of data capture and data management, advances in networking, operating systems and security. The application of areas of bioninformatics to clinical research is beginning to be explored by BRIA. In order to accomplish our goals, we will provide training, presentations, demonstrations and interactive sessions in these areas at the GCRC conference and the Bioninformatics conference.

Left Align In addition, during the year we will work together through our committees and interactions on our listserver to further our mission.




News

September 1, 2006 - MITRE Reports Published: -- As you may recall, the NCRR contracted a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) operated by the non-profit MITRE Corporation to provide a series of targeted research reports on the rapidly changing informatics landscape, as well as to provide strategic advice to the NCRR. MITRE has published the first 3 reports. They are available at http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/CRinformatics/mitre.asp

August 30, 2006 - New Blog: -- We now have a blog for the BRIA President called, "The President Speaks!" You can find the most recent entries on the right side of this page where each title is a link to the acutal post. The blog URL is http://blog.gcrconline.org.
April 6, 2006 - New Resource: -- A new email list has been created for the pharmacists and pharmacy staff that support GCRCs. Please, let your pharmacy group know about the new list server. To join the list, send an email to gcrc-agsm-secy@med.unc.edu.

September 26, 2005: -- Audit Trail generator version 0.8a release by Kent Anderson is now available for download. Visit the Resources page of our site and look for the DOWNLOADS area in the right-hand side bar.

May 16, 2005: -- The 2005 ARP Troubleshooting guide is available in our DOWNLOAD area of the Resources page.

April 28, 2005: -- Please fill out our next Survey, sponsored by the IWG. It is important that we discover what systems the BRIA is using or has created to meet the needs of our GCRCs. We can leverage this information to alleviate the disparity of applications between centers. Thank you for your continued support.
Click Here For the Survey

February 2, 2005: -- BRIA Membership Renewal Online Payment Via PayPal
Click Here For the BRIA Online Membership Renewal

December 13, 2004: -- To make it easier to reach the Knowledge Base, we wanted a link on the main page. Click Here For The BRIA kB(Forum)