| 1 | = BRICCS = |
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| 3 | BRICCS, the Biomedical Informatics Centre for Cardiovascular Science, is the founding project behind the BRICCS platform, now the LCBRU IT Platform. BRICCS is a cohort discovery project to accelerate recruitment into translational medicine studies, recruiting patients with cardiovascular conditions (ACS, Aortic Stenosis, CHD, heart failure, etc) into a population from which cohorts can be isolated for common phenotypes. |
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| 5 | BRICCS uses - and provided the initial impetus for development of - most of the tools in the LCBRU IT Platform. |
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| 7 | Onyx: For recruitment management and electronic data capture / questionnaire.[[BR]] |
| 8 | CaTissue: For specimen collection management and inventory.[[BR]] |
| 9 | i2b2: For cohort discovery and clinical data integration.[[BR]] |
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| 12 | === Remote sites === |
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| 14 | See [[Northampton Recruitment into BRICCS]] for details of the parallel recruitment project, whereby patients are being recruited into the BRICCS population from non-UHL hospitals, initially Northampton General Hospital. |