PHP Medical Informatics Group
510 Treat Avenue (Green Glen Annex)
San Francisco, CA   94110

The primary goal of this project is to expand the research capabilities of the existing clinical research network, the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinic Systems (CNICS). This will be accomplished by developing technical and analytic tools to import HIV resistance data directly from clinical laboratories into the electronic medical record (EMR) at the network's clinical sites. At the clinical sites the data is used for clinical care and then transferred into the network's central data repository. The focus of this project is to extend and apply new technologies to an existing research network by developing standards for the automatic download of viral resistance data into EMRs, to organize the data for clinical decision making, to populate the research network's central data repository and utilize analytic strategies and statistical methodology to define the effect of cumulative HIV resistance on the pace of development on disease progression.