= BRICCS =

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.

BRICCS uses - and provided the initial impetus for development of - most of the tools in the LCBRU IT Platform.

Onyx: For recruitment management and electronic data capture / questionnaire.[[BR]]
CaTissue: For specimen collection management and inventory.[[BR]]
i2b2: For cohort discovery and clinical data integration.[[BR]]


=== Remote sites ===

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.