Perspectives for Medical Informatics: Reusing the Electronic Medical Record for Clinical Research.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Prokosch, H. U.; Ganslandt, T.
- Source
- Methods of Information in Medicine; 2009, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p38-44, 6p, 1 Diagram
- Subject
- MEDICAL informatics
MEDICAL records
CONFIDENTIAL records
DATA warehousing
DATABASE management
INFORMATION technology
MEDICAL research
CLINICAL trials
UNIVERSITY hospitals
- Language
- ISSN
- 00261270
The article focuses on new perspectives in reusing patient data by university hospitals and commercial hospitals for data warehousing and research purposes. It presents challenges for medical informatics as well as some potential obstacles for mastering the identified challenges. In addition, it highlights problems and open questions for the establishment of professional IT infrastructure application to support clinical trial data capture. The authors concluded that translational biomedical research provides interesting field for medical informatics researchers.