Services
Acronyms
Privacy
MSK by the Numbers
100
This MSK application allows you to run free text searches across pathology reports
What is DAVInCI?
100
It's also known as "MSKCC"
What is Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center?
100
To obtain protected health information for retrospective research, this is required from the Institutional Review Board
What is a Waiver of HIPAA Authorization and Informed Consent?
100
1884
What is the year the precursor to Memorial Hospital [New York Cancer Hospital] was founded?
200
This service can assist with identifying patients for retrospective research studies
What is Research Data Query?
200
It's also known as "CRDB"
What is the Clinical Research Data Base?
200
Any questions about SSNs or other protected health information should be directed here
What is the Privacy Office?
200
There are 437 of these at MSK
What are beds?
300
This group can help you integrate your database with existing systems
What is the Data Delivery Services group?
300
It's also known as "IDB"
What is the Institutional Data Base?
300
There are special rules about handling this type of identifiable information linking patients and their healthcare data
What is Protected Health Information (or PHI)?
300
1960
What is the year the Sloan-Kettering Institute and Memorial Hospital were unified into a single entity called Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center?
400
You can use this email address to contact Data Delivery Services
What is data@mskcc.org?
400
It's also known as "PIMS"
What is the Procol Information Management System?
400
This 1996 federal law provides many of the rules for use and disclosure of patient data
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (or HIPAA)?
400
There were 11,474 of these at MSK in 2010
What are employees?
500
This data warehouse was created in 1989 and is expanded with new data daily
What is the Institutional Data Base (or IDB)?
500
It's also known as "DAVInCI"
What is Data Analysis and Visualization of Integrated Cancer Information?
500
A denominator estimate can be obtained prior to IRB approval using this application
What is DAVInCI?
500
1948
What is the year the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI) was formally dedicated?
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