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CRI Website Scheduled Maintenance Notice

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We would like to inform you that our website will undergo scheduled maintenance on Friday, September 4th, at 4:00PM.

The Center for Research Informatics (CRI) website (cri.uchicago.edu) will undergo scheduled maintenance beginning at 4:00PM on Friday, September 4 to perform essential system upgrades and implement enhanced security features.

What to expect:

  • The CRI website will be temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period.
  • Access to the website it expected to be restored by the morning of Tuesday, September 8.
  • While we anticipate the maintenance will be completed within the scheduled window, the exact duration may vary depending on the progress of the upgrades.
  • We will work to restore operations as quickly as possible and minimize any disruption.

Please note the maintenance period will not impact our service line operations. 

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time. If you have any urgent website-related matters, please reach out to Janaya Lee at Janayalee@bsd.uchicago.edu

2026 Epic Cosmos Datathon

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Friday, October 2nd | 8:00am – 5:00pm CT. 

Gordon Center for Integrative Science (GCIS), Meeting Room #W301/W303

Hosted by the University of Chicago Center for Research Informatics, UCM IT, and Epic

Epic Cosmos is a secure clinical research platform that provides access to de-identified electronic health record data from more than 300 million patients across hundreds of healthcare organizations. Researchers can explore real-world inpatient and outpatient data including diagnoses, medications, lab results, and procedures to identify patient cohorts, analyze clinical trends, validate hypotheses, and accelerate data-driven research while protecting patient privacy.

Topics Covered

  • Introduction to Epic Cosmos
  • SlicerDicer for Cosmos
  • Cohort discovery and real-world data exploration
  • Data analysis with DSVM (SQL, R, Python)
  • Clinical research applications

Click here for more details and to register today.