electronic health record
- Yale University
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and its Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) has had great success addressing the issue of minority participation in clinical trials. Two elements that are key to the successes at Yale are electronic health record strategies and community engagement, through the Cultural Ambassador program (partnership between Yale, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
-Center for Data to HealthThe N3C is the largest collection of electronic health record (EHR) data on COVID-19 patients in the world and is anchored on the OHDSI/OMOP model. This webinar will feature presentations to increase N3C awareness and engagement of nurses, and to identify opportunities and roles relevant to nurse scientists. There will also be a panel discussion involving prominent nurse scientists to address
-Center for Data to HealthAbstract: Electronic medical record (EMR) data is encoded in patient charts through the course of clinical care and subsequent patient billing. Coded data in the electronic records (such as information stored as ICD/CPT/LOINC/RxNorm codes) provide vast amounts of valuable patient data. However, effectively applying data science tools to EMR data requires understanding dataset limitations and
University Of WashingtonIntroduction The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over 220,000 lives in the United States. A promising resource for discovery in COVID-19’s symptom progress is data documented in electronic health record (EHR) systems as part of clinical care. Such data are stored in disparate locations within the EHR, requiring multiple extraction methods. Methods Symptoms were extracted from EHR data for all
October 14, 2020According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., with over 1.4 million suicide attempts recorded in 2018. Although effective treatments are available for those at risk, clinicians do not have a reliable way of predicting which patients are likely to make a suicide attempt. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina
October 13, 2020An award-winning smartphone app spearheaded by the University of Minnesota integrates a patient’s responses with the healthcare provider’s electronic health records (EHR) system.
September 28, 2020Electronic health records are painting a detailed picture of COVID-19 testing, infections, and hospitalizations. This statewide effort—which includes CTSI and several healthcare providers—could help identify disparities and inform interventions to improve outcomes for all Minnesotans.
-Center for Data to HealthTake advantage of this global event online from Lisbon, Portugal! (UTC time zone) SNOMED International - Leading Healthcare Terminology, Worldwide
New York University School Of MedicineIn 2017, the NYU Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Recruitment and Retention Unit created a Patient Advisory Council for Research (PACR) to provide feedback on clinical trials and health research studies.
June 09, 2020Ida Sim, MD, PhD, co-director of the Informatics and Research Innovation (IRI) program at CTSI and professor of Medicine, shares insights on the CommonHealth project and app. CTSI provided funding support to pilot the app at UCSF. CommonHealth is an Android app similar in function to Apple Health. It is designed to make it easy for people to securely collect their electronic health record data and
April 30, 2020REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! The rapid rise of COVID-19 has challenged healthcare globally. The underlying risks and outcomes of infection are still incompletely characterized even as the world surpasses 1 million infections. Due to the importance and emergent need for better understanding of the condition and the development of patient-specific clinical risk scores and early warning tools, CD2H has
April 23, 2020After months of fierce opposition, the electronic health record company Epic said Thursday it is dropping its opposition to a federal rule designed to improve patients’ access to their medical records, removing a potential barrier to its implementation.
- April 20, 2020
Introduction: Informed consent for research biospecimen donations is traditionally obtained through a face-to-face interaction with research staff and by signing an Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved printed form. Electronic signatures (eSign) are routinely used in the electronic medical record (EMR) for the consenting of clinical services after patients review printed documentation. Our
-Center for Data to HealthHL7 FHIR DevDays is an opportunity for health IT professionals–whether new to FHIR or with previous experience–to learn about FHIR in a collaborative environment. Participants will have a chance to work with the specification surrounded by others doing similar work guided by experts to answer questions. Designed to deliver a unique education experience within a collaborative environment, FHIR
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March 10, 2020
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology has published the final rule intended to move the health care ecosystem in the direction of interoperability to improve quality and accessibility of information. The rule implements the information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act in an effort to further support access and exchange of electronic health
-Vanderbilt University Medical CenterThis presentation will describe new technical methods enabling institutions to connect REDCap to their local EHR system for automated project-level data exchange. We will discuss two new REDCap functional modules leveraging this HL7/FHIR-based technology and provide impact measures on how this work is transforming the research landscape at Vanderbilt. Next, we will describe innovative models under
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January 29, 2020
See the outstanding commentary by Ken Mandl and Isaac Kohane. It's time to make healthcare a truly data- and knowledge-driven enterprise. That begins by making sure responsible, scalable, and technology-agnostic data sharing is the norm and not an exception!
- Journal of clinical and translational science
Electronic health records (EHRs) provide great promise for identifying cohorts and enhancing research recruitment. Such approaches are sorely needed, but there are few descriptions in the literature of prevailing practices to guide their use. A multidisciplinary workgroup was formed to examine current practices in the use of EHRs in recruitment and to propose future directions.
August 19, 2019Marina Walther-Antonio, Ph.D., is heading the development of a home-based test for human papillomavirus to address high cervical cancer rates linked to widespread sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The team has been at it for three years and they’re getting ready to start phase 1 clinical trials. Realistically, within a few years, a woman in the DRC could be handed a test kit
University Of Texas Health Science CenterThe Center for Innovative Drug Discovery (CIDD), a joint-venture between the University of Texas Health at San Antonio (UTHealthSA) and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), provides core-based services that support biomedical research related to drug discovery. The primary goal of CIDD is to provide a diverse array of technologies and expertise to enable the translation of basic