Clinical research is on the threshold of a new era in which electronic health records (EHR s)
are gaining an important novel supporting role. Whilst EHR s used for routine clinical care …

Introduction In order to further advance research and development on the Clinical Data
Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Operational Data Model (ODM) standard, the …

In order to enable secondary use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by bridging the
interoperability gap between clinical care and research domains, in this paper, a unified …

Background: Semantic interoperability between routine healthcare and clinical research is
an unsolved issue, as information systems in the healthcare domain still use proprietary and …

It has often been claimed that implicit knowledge is the most important kind of knowledge
within organizations. The surge of social software offers new ways to elicit and diffuse this …

Besides the scientific paradigms of empiricism, mathematical modelling, and simulation, the
method of combining and analysing data in novel ways has become a main research …

Traditional approaches to ontology development have a large lapse between the time when
a user using the ontology has found a need to extend it and the time when it does get …

Objective The objective of this study is to develop an approach to evaluate the quality of
terminological annotations on the value set (ie, enumerated value domain) components of …

Data sharing and integration between clinical research data management system (CDMS)
and electronic health record (EHR) system remains a challenging issue. To deal with the …

Background and objective The importance of data standards when integrating clinical
research data has been recognized. The common data element (CDE) is a consensus …