title: E-facts: business process management in clinical data repositories.
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.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Nich
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wattanasin
authors.forename: Zhaoping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raine
authors.forename: Mariah
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shawn N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008404:Massachusetts; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D012042:Registries; D009626:Terminology as Topic