Data Standards: At the Intersection of Sites, Clinical Research Networks, and Standards Development Initiatives

• Published in: Drug information journal Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 393 - 404
• Main Authors: McCourt, Brian, Harrington, Robert A., Fox, Kathleen, Hamilton, Carol Dukes, Booher, Kimberly, Hammond, William E., Walden, Anita, Nahm, Meredith
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.05.2007; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Clinical medicine; Clinical trials; Computerized physician order entry; Data capture; Health care; Health facilities; Hospitals; Information management; Interoperability; Medical research; Patients; Redundancy; Technological change; Terminology; Semantic interoperability; Functional interoperability; Data reporting; Clinical data standards; Data elements

Interactions between the health care and clinical research communities are currently inefficient. The present environment forces unnecessary redundancy, from the capture of patient data in the clinician-patient encounter to multiple uses of thai data. Clinical research operations must become more in...