Towards a Holistic Biomedical Information Platform for Primary and Secondary Use Settings

Clinical information is often used for biomedical research. Data warehouses can help providing researchers with data and the opportunity to find eligible participants for clinical trials.

To define an information platform for healthcare and biomedical research based on requirements by clinicians and researchers.

Interviews with clinicians, researchers, data privacy officers, IT and hospital administration combined with a questionnaire sent to 60 medical departments at our hospital were conducted.

Resulting requirements were grouped and a platform architecture was designed based on the requirements.

Requirements lead to a single platform supporting both, patient care and biomedical research.