The i2b2 tranSMART Foundation has been working on several projects and collaborations to help the healthcare and medical research communities as we look to improve our understand and find better detection and treatment options during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Consortium for Clinical Characterization of Covid19 by EHR (4CE)

Led by Dr. Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School, the effort is called the Consortium for Clinical Characterization of Covid19 by EHR (4CE) and pronounced “forsee”. The 4CE website can be reached at: https://covidclinical.net/

The 4CE Consortium is a globally distributed collaboration across health centers. In this first phase we are reaching out to other collaborators to join our 96 hospital collaboration who also have EHR data to share to augment the breadth and depth of the analyses we jointly work on.

 

Searchable online profiles of researchers around the world studying COVID-19

In parallel to the rapid global spread of COVID-19 disease, there has also been an explosion of research related to coronavirus from investigators around the world. Since January, there have been more than 1,500 journal articles published about COVID-19 [Chen 2020]. The nearly 4,000 authors of these articles come from different countries and numerous fields (infectious disease, genetics, immunology, epidemiology, etc.); and, most of them have never worked together before. Though, what they all have in common is a desire to help stop the pandemic and relevant expertise and/or resources.

This project supports this expanding community of COVID-19 researchers by leveraging an open source program called Harvard Catalyst “Profiles” to create a website that contains searchable online profiles of every COVID-19 researcher worldwide.

More information access coming soon.