Information Resources and Technology
Mission and Goals
The mission of the Stanford University School of Medicine's programs in information resources and technology is to facilitate excellence in education, biomedical and clinical research and patient care through the application of innovative and effective information resources and technology.
We envision the development of an innovative information technology (IT) infrastructure and knowledge access environment that can support the clinical, research, educational and community outreach missions of the Stanford community. This infrastructure will be designed to address critical, real-world problems. It will be developed collaboratively using a process that brings together information technology, library science and biomedical domain expertise from both within Stanford and from regional, national and
international partners. The new information technology and knowledge resource infrastructure will be standards-based, user-centric and designed to support the essential systems inter-operability that will ensure free flow of the data and knowledge that powers patient care, research and education.
We support our mission and fulfillment of this vision by striving towards the following goals:
- Develop and promote a simple and uniform user-centric IT environment.
- Develop, maintain, promote and support defined Medical School standards for systems inter-operability.
- Provide database design and development services supporting the acquisition, storage, access and transmission of Medical School data.
- Promote and support the introduction, development and extension of IT as a tool for teaching and learning.
- Deliver information and knowledge resources to faculty, students, staff, patients and the community.
- Represent the School of Medicine in defining needs, promoting expertise and building partnerships for the design and development of IT systems for the Stanford medicine community.
- Develop an IT infrastructure that remains compliant with changing regulations and guarantees an appropriate level of systems security and data privacy.
- Provide technical services support to the School of Medicine's administrative functions at all levels of the organization by utilizing appropriate available technologies.
Website: http://irt.stanford.edu/
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