title: Reuse of EHRs to Support Clinical Research in a Hospital of Reference.
abstract: Most hospitals have already implemented information systems and Electronic Health Records (EHRs), but the reuse of such data for research is still infrequent. We present a pilot project on the exploitation of clinical information from a Spanish hospital database in the context of the European Medical Information Framework project (EMIF). Specific use cases such as patients with diabetes mellitus type 2, obesity and dementia were assessed, by exploiting EHR data integrated from several separated clinical databases. The possibility to analyse the features of specific groups of patients based on their diagnosis codes can provide new data about relationships between different conditions that can contribute for decision-making, healthcare and research.
authors.affiliation: Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, IMIM - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.affiliation: Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, IMIM - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Laura I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Furlong
authors.affiliation: Parc de Salut MAR (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Torre
authors.affiliation: Parc de Salut MAR (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Ignasi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Planas
authors.affiliation: Parc de Salut MAR (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Francesc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cots
authors.affiliation: Parc de Salut MAR (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Elisabet
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Izquierdo
authors.affiliation: Parc de Salut MAR (PSMAR), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Portabella
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rovira
authors.affiliation: Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, IMIM - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Alba
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gutierrez-Sacristan
authors.affiliation: Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, IMIM - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Ferran
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sanz
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D013030:Spain