UCSF hosts structured clinical data, medical notes, radiology images, genomics data, and more in Information Commons. Other Research Datasets are available as a resource if Information Commons does not suit your project.
Services
Information Commons is a platform for data-driven research that welcomes self-serve use of the data and resources while providing support with a talented team of informatics and data science experts and a growing research data science community. Information Commons aims to minimize the time researchers and data scientists need to spend on preparation for projects.
Information Commons currently hosts UCSF’s structured clinical data, clinical notes, meta-data on clinical notes, extracted concepts from clinical notes using natural language processing (NLP) and other approaches, radiological images, and meta-data extracted from DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) headers.
The currently available data sources for Information Commons can be found here. Some of the available data sources include:
- De-Identified Clinical Notes
- Identified Structured EHR & Clinical Notes by request with approved IRB.
UCSF data hosting platform options available for researchers interested in utilizing Information Commons data is listed here.
- For PHI data with IRB study, private space is available on the Research Analysis Environment (RAE) platform.
Information Commons also features data science tools that can be viewed here.
Directions
- For directions on getting started with Information Commons, go here.
Support
For more information on Information Commons, you can access the UCSF Information Commons Wiki.
This wiki is accessible only to those with a UCSF MyAccess credential.
For general inquiries, email [email protected].