Workshop description

In this seminar, participants will learn about the structure and organization of medical record data, and use the Duke FCAP system to query data and gain hands-on experience with the platform.

The Duke Federated Clinical Analytics Platform (FCAP) is a secure and protected environment allowing access to de-identified medical record data.

The seminar will be at an introductory level with foundational concepts around how patient medical record data are structured. Participants will also engage with hands-on exercises to construct FCAP queries for insights using medical record data.

This event is hosted by North Carolina Central University (NCCU), the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the Duke-NCCU Bridge Office, and the Duke AI Health Community of Practice. Light refreshments will be served.

Register for the workshop here: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8iW8RJ91YGTHuMC

Who should attend?

NCCU faculty and students are encouraged to attend, especially those with an interest in clinical research and health data science. Faculty and students from other academic institutions are also encouraged to join. There is no fee to attend or participate.

Although this introductory session will not cover advanced analytics or artificial intelligence, the FCAP platform is designed to enable these functions, and we expect that this seminar will provide a useful introduction that can lead to additional uses by investigators and teams at NCCU. We will ask for participants to provide feedback about this seminar that will inform our strategy and planning of additional events.

Registration is limited to 50 people, and participants must be 18 years old or older to register and participate in the workshop.

Workshop Instructors

Anisha Chandiramani, MD serves as the Medical Director for Data Partnership and practices clinically as a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. Since 2019, after completing Duke’s two-year fellowship in Clinical Informatics and Master of Management in Clinical Informatics (MMCi), Dr. Chandiramani has served as both the Medical Director of the Digital Strategy Office (DSO) as well as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Department of Medicine and faculty in Hospital Medicine Programs.

Nancy Crego, PhD, MSN is a registered nurse with extensive clinical experience across psychiatric, trauma, adult and pediatric critical care, including pediatric cardiac intensive care and transport. An Associate Clinical Professor in the Duke University School of Nursing, her research centers on health disparities and the impact of healthcare system factors on the quality and safety of care for acutely and chronically ill populations. Dr. Crego specializes in secondary data analysis, including clinical, cost, and utilization datasets, and has published on methods for applying these data to nursing research. Her current work focuses on pain and systemic inequities in individuals with Sickle Cell Disease.

Ben Goldstein, PhD is Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University and chief of the Division of Translational Biomedical Informatics. He serves as the Chief Data Scientist for Duke AI Heath and the Associate Chief Date Scientist for the Duke University Health System, and his research interests are in the meaningful use of Electronic Health Records data.

What is FCAP?

Made possible through the Duke-nference partnership, the Federated Clinical Analytics Platform (FCAP) is an integrated database and advanced analytics platform that aggregates multi-modal, de-identified health information spanning over a decade and refreshed quarterly for up-to-date insights.

All data remain in Duke’s secure hybrid-cloud environment. Users can extract research insights, but at no point will data leave the secure environment. Participants in the workshop will receive Duke account permissions to directly interact with the system, and we are submitting a protocol for review by the Institutional Review Board to approve use of this activity. All data will be at the level of aggregated results, and no individual patient data will be disclosed.

Why are we holding this seminar?

In 2025, the National Institutes of Health awarded Duke University $69 million, in partnership with North Carolina Central University, through the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).

One important priority for us in our Duke-NCCU partnership is to foster collaboration and innovation through data access and resources. This is the first workshop that we’ve held at NCCU for data access around clinical and translational research.

Please note: Registration for the workshop will close on Monday, May 4. This is to allow enough time for the FCAP accounts to be set up in advance of the workshop.