“Aside from the upfront cost of implementing electronic health records (EHRs), one of the major barriers for adopting health IT cited by physicians is a lack of standards. On Friday, HL7 published a standard for clinical research in an EHR system.
The standard has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Basically, the standard outlines the requirements for how EHR data is used for regulated clinical research and offers a roadmap for how the data can support the workflow for patient care and clinical research processes. This standard is important because it recognizes the value of secondary use of data and seamlessly leverages the data in the EHR system to support clinical research.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch, 8 November 2009
