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Informatics Consultation Service at Stanford

The Informatics Consultation service was an IRB approved project to study the use of routinely collected data on millions of individuals to provide on-demand evidence in those situations where good evidence is lacking. We used demographics, diagnoses, procedures, medications, laboratory values, clinical notes, mortality, and length of stay information for millions of patients to inform clinical care decisions by summarizing “what happened to patients like mine”.

Given a specific clinical question, we provided a report with a descriptive summary of similar patients in Stanford’s clinical data warehouse, treatment choices made, and observed outcomes. This 3 minute animation summarizes the workflow of the service we offered.

The study concluded in August 2019. Learn about the Advanced Cohort Engine (ACE) that enabled the service. For setting up such a service at your institution, write to us at greenbutton@stanford.edu or read our handbook.

Learn More

Read our story, learn how we got started, check out our CEO's annual report and brochure as well as the NLM Director Dr. Patricia Brennan's Congressional testimony on Investments in Medical Research at Five Institutes & Centers of the NIH.

One minute video on the Informatics Consult Service.


Grand Rounds at the NIH Collaboratory on Nov 22, 2019


Example Consultations

  1. In a young patient presenting with mononeuritis multiplex what is their ultimate diagnosis? See report.
  2. Is there a relationship between HSV or VZV infection in patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor immunotherapy? See report.
  3. Between 2013 and 2017, in women, men, adults ≤ 45 years old and adults > 45 years old, how frequently was a positive procalcitonin (defined as a result > 0.5) associated with a positive blood culture?See report.

The Team

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