Unlocking value in clinical research network data
by Deborah Beranek Lafky
International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management (IJHTM), Vol. 6, No. 4/5/6, 2005

Abstract: The US National Institutes of Health Roadmap outlines a vision for reaping value from clinical research; increasing the speed and effectiveness of applying that research to healthcare practice. The Institutes' call for reengineering the clinical healthcare enterprise articulates the need for informatics as the key facilitator for increasing the productivity and efficiency of research networks. Data heterogeneity among clinical research network nodes is an impediment to achieving this goal of knowledge integration in the distributed research enterprise. Existing research networks display a broad diversity of informatics implementations among their nodes. This paper presents a framework for understanding the source and nature of data heterogeneity in the research enterprise and presents a prototype method for overcoming one facet of it. By providing a strategy for marshalling the research enterprise's emergent knowledge, the goal of managing that knowledge and applying it to clinical care can be more rapidly and easily achieved.

Online publication date: Mon, 02-May-2005

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