About IRT

Administrative Systems & Technology oversees the development and maintenance of the School's administrative computing environment.

Data Center offers a secure server environment for your hosting needs.  These services include: Basic Hosting Services which includes access to secure servers and Managed Systems which includes the Basic Hosting services plus Unix, Linux and Windows administration.

Information Security provides standards and processes to help you keep your information inaccessible to unauthorized users who may want to destroy, tamper with, or steal your data.

Information Privacy ensures compliance with HIPAA and other privacy mandates.

Lane Library and Knowledge Management Center creates opportunities for discovery, translation, learning and collaboration by providing faculty, staff, and students with easy, efficient access to in-context knowledge whenever and wherever it is needed to support patient care, education and research. The KMC focuses on acquisition and integration of knowledge sources, consultation and instruction in information finding and manipulation, learning spaces and computing labs, and technology support for the curriculum.

Networking plans and manages the SoM data communications network, offering both high-speed wired and wireless network service.

Service Desk provides basic desktop support to the faculty, students, and staff at the School of Medicine, as well as extended technical support to a number of groups and departments. Basic support for technical support, training resources and technical solution recommendations includes access to our Service Desk using HelpSU or over the phone at x5-8000. Departments can fund expanded technical support, which includes on-site computing support.

Systems Engineering & Architecture is the software development arm of IRT. The group supports the School's missions through the use of innovative technology. Working in concert with other IRT organizations and directly with the Medical School community, we build web and desktop applications which support biomedical research, education, information retrieval, collaboration, and other mission critical business functions.

Web and New Media Services provides general oversight for the School of Medicine's web presence and a wide range of support for the more than 300 public websites associated with the School of Medicine and Stanford Hospital & Clinics. The group manages content for the Schools top level pages, sets web publishing standards and policies, provides training and support for departmental web authors, and builds static and dynamic websites for groups across the school.

Simulation and Educational Technology focuses on supporting the school's educational mission with a variety of technologies and enhanced learning modalities.  SET consists of the Center for Immersive and Simulation-based Learning (CISL) which coordinates the school's use of immersive and simulation-based technologies to support our clinical, research and educational missions and Educational Technology (EdTech)  whose mission is to provide a highly coordinated set of educational planning and support services to facilitate the innovative and appropriate use of teaching technology throughout the school.

Stanford Center for Clinical Informatics (SCCI). The core mission of SCCI is to foster the development of an interdisciplinary program focused on novel applications of information technology and computer science to health care, translational & clinical research, biomedical knowledge management and education. The center provides services to the Stanford biomedical research community, including access to SUMC clinical data for research purposes, the delivery of research data management solutions and biospecimen data management resources.