The CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) was funded in Sept 2006 as an R24 award to provide a research infrastructure to support HIV clinical outcomes research.

The objective of the CNICS project is to integrate clinical data from the large and diverse population of HIV-infected persons in the modern HAART era who are receiving care at one of the many US federally-funded Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) sites.

The CNICS project is the first electronic medical records (EMR)-based resource network to contribute to the contemporary HIV research agenda. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate questions related to HIV disease management that cannot be readily addressed through traditional randomized controlled clinical trials and other cohort studies.

Investigators with expertise in basic, clinical, translational, and epidemiologic research, in addition to medical informatics, are collaborating and contributing to the CNICS project.