Taking advantage of continuity of care documents to populate a research repository.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Clinical data warehouses have accelerated clinical research, but even with available open source tools, there is a high barrier to entry due to the complexity of normalizing and importing data. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's Meaningful Use Incentive Program now requires that electronic health record systems produce standardized consolidated clinical document architecture (C-CDA) documents. Here, we leverage this data source to create a low volume standards based import pipeline for the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) clinical research platform. We validate this approach by creating a small repository at Partners Healthcare automatically from C-CDA documents.

Materials and methods

We designed an

SUBMITTER: Klann JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080729 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature