About Us

Yale Biomedical Informatics and Computing (YBIC) is a new service center that brings together computational services, health sciences IT and hardware administration to optimize the research and computing process for principal investigators. We develop strategic initiatives at the School of Medicine and operate the Research Informatics Office (RIO) and Research Compute Infrastructure (RCI). We collaborate with Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), Yale University ITS, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and other centers and departments across the university.

Led by Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD, we are housed in the Office of the Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics at Yale School of Medicine.

Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD, leads YBIC as Yale School of Medicine’s Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics. Under her leadership, YBIC leads key strategic initiatives for computing, informatics and health technology across the university and heath system.

The Research Informatics Office (RIO) is led by Daniella Meeker, PhD, Chief Research Information Officer at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health System. RIO is responsible for research data warehousing, data curation and transformation, and clinical information at Yale.

• RIO covers clinical research applications for research administrators and teams
  
• RIO provides data services to research administrators, research teams and library users
  
• RIO offers translational research services to health system research on quality and research teams’ learning health systems (LHS).

Research Compute Infrastructure (RCI) is a partnership between YBIC and Yale Health Sciences IT. RCI is led by Hua Xu, PhD, FACMI, Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics at Yale School of Medicine, and Wies Rafi, PhD, Associate Chief Information Officer of the Health Sciences Division at Information Technology (IT) at Yale. RCI supports high performance computing support and research server hardware administration across campus. The RCI-HSIT research systems provide infrastructure and virtualization support, security and regulatory monitoring and auditing, and data storage and data sharing platforms.

• RCI supports the Computational Health Platform (CHP) at YNHHS
  
• RCI supports GPUs at YNHHS to power users of medical AI research
  
• RCI provides user support for Spinups at Yale School of Medicine
  
• RCI covers data purchase and catalogs at Yale School of Medicine