Electronic Medical Records for Genetic Research: Results of the eMERGE Consortium

Electronic medical records for genetic research: results of the eMERGE consortium.

Clinical data in electronic medical records (EMRs) are a potential source of longitudinal clinical data for research. The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network (eMERGE) investigates whether data captured through routine clinical care using EMRs can identify disease phenotypes with sufficient positive and negative predictive values for use in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Usi...

Electronic medical records: the way forward for primary care research?

Perspectives on electronic medical records adoption: electronic medical records (EMR) in outcomes research

Health information technology (HIT) is engineered to promote improved quality and efficiency of care, and reduce medical errors. Healthcare organizations have made significant investments in HIT tools and the electronic medical record (EMR) is a major technological advance. The Department of Veterans Affairs was one of the first large healthcare systems to fully implement EMR. The Veterans Heal...

Anonymization of Longitudinal Electronic Medical Records for Clinical Research

Dr. Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis for their constant advice and guidance. I am looking forward to our continuing collaboration in the future. Finally, I would like to thank my family for their never-ending encouragement. This work would not have been possible without their support.

Electronic health records, medical research, and the Tower of Babel.

We can travel almost anywhere in the world and find a machine that will dispense local currency, taking the money from our home account with the use of a bank card. Yet, when we go from a primary care physician to a specialist in our home town, we must begin at square one, providing the new doctor’s office with all our demographic and medical information, often by completing paper forms. If we ...