Peter Winkelstein, MD, MBA, executive director of the Institute for Healthcare Informatics, has extensive experience applying medical informatics in clinical and academic settings.
We are a secure computing center — compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — that stores, aggregates and innovatively analyzes health care data.
At the IHI, we:
We support:
The IHI data repository houses almost 700,000 fully identified patient records and limited-data sets of claims encompassing 1.5 million individuals. Our production data capacity is 14.1 terabytes of encrypted storage, with clustered servers that have the ability to scale as data and transaction needs grow. We host tools for cohort identification and feasibility studies such as an i2b2 dashboard, and we have partnered with TrinetX to provide access to industry-funded clinical trials. These tools are available to all UB researchers; access is granted through our web portal. We also provide hosting services for secure storage and collection of sensitive health care information.
We safeguard protected health information (PHI) data by employing multilayered security, including a scalable, virtual PC environment that can be tailored, based on user requirements, for Microsoft Windows or Linux to run researchers’ tools. This virtual environment is flexible and can be expanded as requirements change.
A smaller development and test environment also is available for development purposes.
701 Ellicott St.
Buffalo, NY 14203
Research Requests/Inquiries
Email: IHIreq@buffalo.edu
General Inquiries
Email: IHI@buffalo.edu
Peter Winkelstein, MD, MS, MBA, FAAP
Executive Director, Institute for Healthcare Informatics
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, UBMD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Kaleida Health
Professor
University at Buffalo Institute for Healthcare Informatics 955 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: (716) 881-7507; Fax: (716) 829-2437
Email: pwink@buffalo.edu
Department of Biomedical Informatics 77 Goodell street Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: (716) 881-8971
Email: ceusters@buffalo.edu
Lisa Zander
Assistant Director of Academic Administration