title: Towards a Holistic Biomedical Information Platform for Primary and Secondary Use Settings.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Clinical information is often used for biomedical research. Data warehouses can help providing researchers with data and the opportunity to find eligible participants for clinical trials.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To define an information platform for healthcare and biomedical research based on requirements by clinicians and researchers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interviews with clinicians, researchers, data privacy officers, IT and hospital administration combined with a questionnaire sent to 60 medical departments at our hospital were conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Resulting requirements were grouped and a platform architecture was designed based on the requirements.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Requirements lead to a single platform supporting both, patient care and biomedical research.
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schreiweis
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Raluca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pahontu
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Theresia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eichner
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg University Hospital, Center for Information Technology and Medical Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bergh
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards; D066275:Health Information Exchange; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires