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.
CaTissue: For specimen collection management and inventory.
i2b2: For cohort discovery and clinical data integration.

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.