Infrastructure Core Services (ICS)

As mentioned on the front page ICS serves as the infrastructure arm to I2DB. The group is broken down into 4 main groups, although there's significant overlap between them in terms of roles and responsibilities. The groups are:

  1. Data Brokerage

    Data brokers work with the WashU community to assist in data requests, perform feasibility queries for grant preparations, and assist in education and training for the research use of EHR data. Additionally, they work with external vendors for integration and support needs.

  2. Data Warehousing

    Provides the integration, curation and maintenance of various EHR sources that comprise the Research Data Core (RDC).

  3. Platform Engineering

    Let Ian and Nicole provide a short description here

  4. Project Management

    Let Ian and Nicole provide a short description here

The chapters below go into the details about each team.

External Teams

  • HICAPPS is an external web development team based in Chile. They often serve as a 3rd party application development arm for various research endeavors. Please HICAPPS for further details.
  • Techonology Partners Inc. (TPI) is an external contracting partner. They help to provide various infrastructure needs, especially on the Data Lake.

Onboarding

  • For more information regarding onboarding new team members please see the corresponding how-to page.
  • For more information on onboarding new external brokers please see here
  • For more information on onboarding other kinds of participants please see here

Ticketing


Updated on August 7, 2025