title: Federating clinical data from six pediatric hospitals: process and initial results from the PHIS+ Consortium.
abstract: Integrating clinical data with administrative data across disparate electronic medical record systems will help improve the internal and external validity of comparative effectiveness research. The Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) currently collects administrative information from 43 pediatric hospital members of the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA). Members of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) network have partnered with CHCA and the University of Utah Biomedical Informatics Core to create an enhanced version of PHIS that includes clinical data. A specialized version of a data federation architecture from the University of Utah ("FURTHeR") is being developed to integrate the clinical data from the member hospitals into a common repository ("PHIS+") that is joined with the existing administrative data. We report here on our process for the first phase of federating lab data, and present initial results.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, SLC, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Scott P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Narus
authors.forename: Rajendu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: Ramkiran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gouripeddi
authors.forename: Oren E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Livne
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mo
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bickel
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Regt
authors.forename: Joseph W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Hales
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kirkendall
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Stepanek
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toth
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Keren
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D057186:Comparative Effectiveness Research; D016208:Databases, Factual; D063005:Health Information Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States