April 6, 2004: Rosenfeld tapped for new CC position

Dr. Stephen Rosenfeld, CRIS project director, has been named the Clinical Center's Chief Information Officer and Associate Director for Clinical Research Information Systems. In this position, he will oversee the Department of Clinical Research Informatics--Dr. Rosenfeld has served as the department's chief since it was established in 2001--along with the Department of Networks and Applications.

Board certified in both hematology and internal medicine, Dr. Rosenfeld received his BS from Yale University, his MD from Cornell, and an MBA from Georgetown. His residency training was at Dartmouth. Dr. Rosenfeld first came to NIH as an National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute clinical associate in 1989 and served as a clinical fellow there before joining the CC staff as a senior staff physician in what was the Clinical Pathology Department.

He has also served as senior staff physician and then Acting Chief of the Information Systems Department before the department was split into DCRI (the Department of Clinical Research Informatics) and DNA (the Department of Networks and Applications).

March 3, 2004: CRIS go-live date set for July 31, 2004

A message to NIH staff from Dr. John I. Gallin, Director of the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center and NIH Associate Director for Clinical Research, and Dr. Cliff Lane, CRIS Steering Committee Chairman and Clinical Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:

It’s with pleasure that we announce July 31, 2004, as the date we go live with the core component of CRIS, the NIH Clinical Research Information System Project.

This long-anticipated implementation covers the patient-care aspects of CRIS, the functions now handled by the Clinical Center’s 28-year-old MIS (Medical Information System). It is a critical component to complete before the move to the new Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center later this year.

Hundreds of NIH staff have participated in the design and review of CRIS. This participation and expertise has been instrumental in building a system that will meet the needs of the intramural clinical research program. We want to congratulate everyone involved in this project for their hard work to get us to the point where we can announce a go-live date. The interval of time between now and go live will require the continued interest and support of all of us with respect to CRIS testing, training and activation.

Project team members, under the direction of Dr. Stephen Rosenfeld, will share more detailed information about implementation plans and schedules over the next few weeks.

CRIS headlines:

 CRIS user group
CRIS has convened a core user group to help with key initiatives. Dr. Steven Luxenberg, the CRIS project’s physician informaticist, leads the group. Members are Jennifer Chaney, Diagnostic Radiology Department; Lucia DeMenezes and Keisha Potter, Nursing Department; Jeanne Preuss, Department of Laboratory Medicine; and Sherry Sheldon, Department of Transfusion Medicine. Group members will be involved with training, testing, communications and process change in support of CRIS

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