Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Education

A Note from the Director

David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH

In 2011, the MetroHealth System created the Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Education (CCIRE) as the home of clinical informatics academic activities. Faculty in CCIRE typically have academic as well as operations informatics roles in The MetroHealth System.

CCIRE has been involved in over 40 different informatics related grants totaling over $5 million dollars. Most of CCIRE’s research activities fall into one of two areas:

1. Big data – exploiting a variety of big data tools/real world aggregated and de-identified electronic health record data for discovery include:
   1. MetroHealth Epic electronic health record database (~1.7 million patients over 25+ years)
   2. Epic’s Cosmos Data Network – over 300 million patients
   3. TriNetX – over 120 million patients
2. Electronic health record innovation – using the Epic electronic health record in novel ways to improve health

Peer reviewed publications of CCIRE

CCIRE is also actively involved in a variety of educational activities including a Certificate of Health Informatics and MS and PhD programs in Biomedical and Health Informatics at Case Western Reserve University as well as a 2-year ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics Fellowship program at MetroHealth.

David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FACI, FAMIA
Director, Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Education (CCIRE)