Clinical Data Repositories Flashcards
The art of representing data in a pictorial or graphic format
Data visualization
It integrates physician-entered data with data from different existing information systems.
Clinical data repository
Clinical data repository includes?
Laboratory
Admission
Radiology
Pharmacy
What are the common kinds of available information in the CDR?
- Procedures
- Immunizations
- Lab results
- Social history
- Diagnoses
- Allergies
- Medication list
- Patient demographics
- Vitals
- Patient primary care provider
- Hospital inpatient visit
- Emergency department encounters
- Outpatient practice visits
As a structured and systematically gathered “storehouse” of patient-specific data, which is usually mirrored from a clinical application, or supplemented with data from other clinical systems.
Clinical Data Repositories
Types of clinical data repositories
- Study
- Electronic health record
- Registry
- Federation
- Collection
- Warehouse
True or False
Visualization is increasingly becoming an important tool in decision-making.
True
True or False
CDRs offer a cross-continuum view of information since they allow information to be gathered and viewed from sources other than an acute setting.
True
True or False
CDRs have different levels of integration, usually dependent on locations, indices, catalogs, semantic translations or equivalences, syntactic structures, and links to external information.
True
