Doing our Part to End the Opioid Crisis

Professor Murk

Hi Krumworld!

We could not be more excited to announce the publication of our first academic research paper in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics! Working with Wake Forest University, our team of Colin Griffin, Hunter Adams, and Stephen Bryant adapted the open-source Gen3 platform to build a Data Commons that supports the needs of the National Institutes of Health HEAL initiative. The "Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative" (HEAL) is an NIH-wide effort to accelerate scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.

So what does that mean? Meredith Adams, MD MS, Associate Professor at Wake Forest University, says it best:

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"Normally in the U.S. there's the technical world of research and then there's the clinical research, and these are very separated spheres. So having a solution that bridges both the technical and the clinical science and is understandable to the clinical researchers is a very rare thing."

If you would like to hear more from Meredith on this topic, as well as how Krumware along with our great partner SUSE collaborated on this project, you can check out the webinar here. And if you would like to learn more about how Krumware can help with your Data Commons initiative, please reach out to me at noah@krum.io!