¶ Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE) |
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| 203 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907 www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/rche/ Contact: Pavlos Vlachos, pvlachos@purdue.edu Twitter: @PURDUE_RCHE |
Education and Research | |
| Role(s) | Located in Discovery Park at Purdue University, the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE) brings together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to collaboratively improve healthcare delivery and empower individuals to live their highest quality of life. RCHE performs research in three strategic areas: i) developing data science-based approaches to personalized care, ii) using a systems approach to matching health resources to need, and iii) improving access to care for vulnerable populations |
| Mission | RCHE pursues a proactive, patient-centered, and wellness-focused healthcare delivery system by conducting impactful research that leverages collaborative partnerships. |
| History | 2005 – Created as a center in Purdue’s Discovery Park based on funding from the Regenstrief Foundation 2015 – Purdue Healthcare Advisors (PHA) becomes part of RCHE 2017 – Renewed with commensurate funding from the Regenstrief Foundation |
| Org | Staff of 23 across RCHE Group of 49 Membership Faculty representing 18 departments on campus Leadership: • Pavlos Vlachos: Director (pvlachos@purdue.edu) • Allison Bryan Jungels: Assistant Director – Operations, Outreach and Partnerships (abryan@purdue.edu) |
| Finance | Annual support from the Regenstrief Foundation Funding of $10M to $15M annually from a variety of state, federal and other funding mechanisms |
| Data Source | • Collaborative agreements pending with EHR vendors for broad data access. • State based data sources including Indiana Medicaid claims, Minimum Data Set (MDS), and Purdue claims data. • Other specific data sources from a variety of providers for specific research questions. |
| Data Access | Data goes through a process including a data sharing agreement and security review. The formal process documented at https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/rche/resources/hipaa.php |
| Tech Capabilities | • Ability to de-identify data and store in HIPAA compliant environment. • External entities can share PHI to RCHE and have access to computational environment. • IT support staff can help researchers design and perform analysis |
| Projects | • Opioids – Data linked at the individual level for researchers that are part of the IRB. • Health Equity- compiling vast data assets from Indiana to address health disparities at the local level • Artificial Intelligence Methods – Broad computer science and engineering skillset to construct artificial intelligence and machine learning methods on retrospective data. |
| Future Focus | Opportunity to demonstrate linkage of State Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) data (Education/Workforce) with clinical data to drive population health research and improve outcome |
| Talent Development | RCHE supports the academic development of undergraduate and graduate students at Purdue by engaging them in cross-disciplinary research. |
| Data Sharing Agreements | Many agreements in place; however, they are use case specific |
| Programs/ Publications | Website: https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/rche/ |