Quality of Research

UMC Utrecht is a decentralized hospital, my role is to insure that central policies are being followed and that researchers are supported at all levels. Connecting the researcher with central solutions, products and services is of great importance.
The last years the UMC Utrecht has invested in the program Research IT. Centralization of HPC cluster and all kind of storages are realized and a research data platform is developed and implemented.

eHealth & Big Data

Developing a strategy to use and implement eHealth solutions in the continuum of care perspective. We started four internal pilots and will be starting another 4 pilots in association with a nationwide program eHealth which is initiated by the ministry of health (Citrienfonds).
Defining a vision and strategy on Big Data. In this perspective we started the program Applied Data Analytics in Medicine (ADAM). Aim is to develop a strategy in resolving clinical problems by using existing data. This project is in collaboration with several vendors. We are going to start with four pilot projects. We will work in an agile scrum methodology. At the end of this year/beginning of next year we will have our first results.

This program is coordinated by the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centers (NFU). The aim of the Data4lifesciences program is to connect local initiatives to national and international infrastructures. UMC Utrecht leads one of the work packages ‘Connecting research’; empowering the researcher community to share, use, analyze and archive data in a sustainable way.