Informatics Core Creates COVID-19 Data Repository

The CTSI’s Informatics Core created an Integrated Data Repository (IDR) for COVID-19 related research to help ensure that data is collected, stored, and used in accordance with Duke Health data quality controls and compliance.

The design enabled long term use, data sharing, harmonization, quality and security. In addition, a dashboard was developed to expose the information contained in the repository.  The dashboard is now used to deliver self-service access to de-identified, COVID patient demographics, diagnosis, and specimen data.  Duke researchers can build a cohort based on a subset of data and identify available samples.  The creation of the IDR continues to advance the vision of making more genomic data available to the research community.