E-facts: business process management in clinical data repositories
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Published on: February 23, 2019
Nich Wattanasin1, Zhaoping Peng, Christine Raine
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
The Partners Healthcare Research Patient Data Registry (RPDR) is a centralized data repository that gathers clinical data from various hospital systems. The RPDR allows clinical investigators to obtain aggregate numbers of patients with user-defined characteristics such as diagnoses, procedures, medications, and laboratory values. They may then obtain patient identifiers and electronic medical records with prior IRB approval. Moreover, the accurate identification and efficient population of worthwhile and quantifiable facts from doctor's report into the RPDR is a significant process. As part of our ongoing e-Fact project, this work describes a new business process management technology that helps coordinate and simplify this procedure.
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