Electronic Health Record in Clinical Research

Question: Discuss about the Electronic Health Record in Clinical Research. Answer: Introduction: In the article titled Electronic health records based phenotyping in next-generation clinical trials: a perspective from the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory, researchers Richesson et al. (2013) have presented the findings of the Health Care Systems Collaboratory program. The said program was initiated in the year 2012 with the aim of engaging health care systems as partners in all activities associated with that of discussing and developing tools and technologies required for conducting pragmatic clinical trials or PCTs. The researchers have commented that the sole objective of the NIH Common Fund behind forming the Health Care Systems Collaborator was to find effective methods for conducting the research works in the following manner: Utilizing those electronic healthcare records that have already been collected during the clinical research works, The integration of all research findings in the said EHR system, with the aim of facilitating further research works. The researchers have presented the details of the core principles based on which the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory groups are currently operating, along with some of the previous experiences reported by other experts conducting research work in EHR-Based Phenotyping during clinical research activities. In fact, the researchers have also presented a brief discussion on the data standards that are currently being utilized by the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory groups for the utilization of the data presented in the HER (Kahn et al. 2012). Thus, it can be said that the article would be of prime importance to those who aim to conduct further studies in the said domain. References Kahn, M. G., Raebel, M. A., Glanz, J. M., Riedlinger, K., Steiner, J. F. (2012). A pragmatic framework for single-site and multisite data quality assessment in electronic health record-based clinical research. Medical care, 50. Richesson, R. L., Hammond, W. E., Nahm, M., Wixted, D., Simon, G. E., Robinson, J. G., ... Laws, R. L. (2013). Electronic health records based phenotyping in next-generation clinical trials: a perspective from the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,20(e2), e226-e231.