Prototypical Clinical Trial Registry Based on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR): Design and Implementation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical trial registries increase transparency in medical research by making information and results of planned, ongoing, and completed studies publicly available. However, the registration of clinical trials remains a time-consuming manual task complicated by the fact that the same studies often need to be registered in different registries with different data entry requirements and interfaces.

Objective

This study investigates how Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) may be used as a standardized format for exchanging and storing clinical trial records.

Methods

We designed and prototypically implemented an open-source central trial registry containing records from university hospitals, which are automatically exported an

SUBMITTER: Gulden C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7837997 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature