Clinical Research Informatics

The purpose of the book is to provide an overview of clinical research (types), activities, and areas where informatics and IT could fit into various activities and business practices. This book will introduce and apply informatics concepts only as they have particular relevance to clinical research settings.

Drs. Richesson and Andrews work with a data centre that supports a variety of diseases in the Pediatric Epidemiology Centre at the University of South Florida.

Dr. Richesson has a very broad training on standards and wrote the first published journal article on the topic of data standards in clinical research.

Dr. Andrews is a tenured professor in Information Science and has published several articles in leading journals in clinical research informatics.