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Benefits |
Implementation
of Industry Standards
Today, many clinical trials are conducted in isolation.
As a result, research and patient data is often
redundantly collected but not shared. Or, the
same data is collected using different methods
and formats. To promote the efficient exchange
of this data, we work with standards-making bodies
such as the Clinical Data Interchange Standards
Consortium (CDISC) and Health Level Seven (HL7)
to develop and incorporate industry standards
that improve the way different healthcare computer
systems share information. This involves:
- Collaborating with clinical officials
to build schemas that verify whether
compiled data conforms to set industry
standards
- Designing Web services that allow
dispersed workers and organizations
to effectively exchange and collect
standardized data
- Integrating applications across platforms
so that they share data easily
- Designing clinical databases and
clinical site monitoring systems using
existing or emerging industry standards
to ensure interoperability
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Data Integration and
Exchange
Part of our effort to make organizations and clinical
data within the healthcare domain more interoperable
involves data integration—that is, the act
of combining sources of clinical data residing
in multiple, distributed locations to present
a single, central collection of the data. This
involves:
- Integrating applications across diverse
platforms such as UNIX, Windows, Mac,
and Linux
- Incorporating different types of
data into standards-based schemas
- Building libraries of schemas to
facilitate data exchange between research
centers
- Designing systems architectures and
applications to send and receive data
through FTP, SMTP, and direct database
links
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Web Services That Support
Access Interoperability
IWe leverage the full power of
existing and emerging Web technologies to automate
the delivery of information services, and disseminate
and provide access to standardized clinical data.
Our Web-based solutions involve:
- Developing Web portals through which
multiple research networks can access
the same data
- Using Microsoft’s .NET product
to create standard, secure XML Web services
that better support the exchange of
standardized data
- Providing outside universities and
other interested organizations with
secure online access to standardized
clinical data
- Implementing Web security and quality
assurance programs to ensure that accessed
data is safe, accurate, and reliable
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Compliance with Industry
Data
StandardsOrganizations such as CDISC and
HL7 have created global data standards—independent
of platforms—that provide a common language
with which healthcare enterprises can communicate.
As a healthcare IT service provider, Digital Infuzion
collaborates regularly with CDISC, HL7, and other
organizations to develop standards-based data
sharing solutions. |
Information
Officers, Care Providers, and Federal Regulators
- A common language with which healthcare
stakeholders can communicate
- Quicker transfer of data, resulting
in quicker delivery of services to patients
and partners
- Accelerated adoption of industry standards
- Streamlined compliance with HIPAA,
CDISC, and HL7 electronic data standards
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Researchers and Care Providers
- Streamlined development, exchange and
analysis of electronic health records
(EHRs)
- Consistency and correctness of patient
information across domains, resulting
in a more informed diagnosis
- Less time spent searching for EHRs
or MRIs, leading to quicker treatment
and patient satisfaction
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Patients
- Simplified registration at clinical
care settings
- Fewer paper forms to fill out
- Increased face-to-face interaction
with care providers
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Clinical Administrators
- Simplified flow of data, resulting
in reduced administrative costs
- Easier management of patient identification
across domains
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Our Technical Approach
First we locate and define the various sources of information
within your organization. To do this, we conduct regular
knowledge acquisition sessions with workers at research
networks and clinical care centers to understand how they
collect and organize their data. Through these sessions
we define the data fields, formats, and terminology in
accordance with international standards developed by CDISC,
HL7, and other appropriate standards-making organizations.
Next, we design and publish a schema that can be transferred
across organizations, allowing each organization to format,
organize, and exchange their data uniformly. This data
can then be filtered into a central repository—one
which all involved organizations can access through secure
Web portals. This way, we achieve consistency and correctness
of data, as well as a steady flow of information between
the different systems seeking to communicate with each
other.
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