R3 Services

Health Record Research Request (R3)

R3 is a service of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), provisioning UPMC clinical data and authorizing additional UPMC data sources for research. 

Publications Using Health Record Research Request (R3) Service

Health Record Research Request (R3) is a service of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) managed by the Chief Research Informatics Officer (CRIO), sponsored in part by the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Institute for Precision Medicine. Pitt and UPMC desire to make clinical data available for research. Under the CRIO, on behalf of UPMC, DBMI staff provision data for research (in some cases as Honest Brokers) primarily via our Research Data Warehouse, Neptune. R3 is this service or process of provisioning UPMC clinical data and of authorizing additional UPMC data sources for research. R3 is available for use by researchers of the University of Pittsburgh, and for UPMC projects requiring research datasets. To engage R3 please use the R3 Intake Form (less than 30 seconds to fill out including principal investigator contact information and pasting in a brief project description). R3 team can be contacted with any questions at HealthR3@pitt.edu.

Download The R3 Introduction PowerPoint

Download and Play the R3 Introduction PowerPoint (Audio) 

NOTE: For requests previously handled by CARe, requiring more data, please complete the R3 Intake Form above to (re)start.

For Limited Data Sets, go to this website and click "UPMC Data Use Agreement for Limited Data Set."

R3 Office hours

Office Hours are now available by appointment via HealthR3@pitt.edu:

In Shadyside at dbmi.pitt.edu (5607 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA) or zoom.

Help Desk

The Biomedical Informatics Core provides helpdesk support for CTSI Cohort Discovery Tool, ACT Cohort Discovery Tool, and REDCap. The BIC Help Desk can be contacted at bicsupp@pitt.edu or at 412-624-8555, Monday- Friday 8:00AM to 4:00PM.