The mission of the Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) is to utilize the expertise of BIDMC “informaticians” with backgrounds in medicine, biology, engineering, biostatistics, and computer science to facilitate research at our institution by (a) providing a high level of service and experience in informatics that is difficult for individual laboratories to achieve and maintain, (b) developing the infrastructure required to address common informatics needs of all researchers, and © identifying areas in which there can be closer collaboration among life scientists and quantitative scientists.
Services

BRIC is an informatics unit with a focus on delivering services to BIDMC researchers related to
creating and managing HIPAA compliant databases
designing and updating attractive internet websites
implementing software and web-based applications
assisting with the selection and use of data analysis tools
developing novel analysis techniques
We also help coordinate projects between several other informatics groups including
Academic and Research Computing
Clinical Data Repository
Division of Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology
General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)
Genomics Center
Media Services