HealthIT Answers November 4, 2020
By Teresa Zayas Cabán, ONC
Successful health research hinges on the quality of the data used to advance discovery and needed health IT functionality. Electronic health data are increasingly available and can be a significant boon for the medical research community. Coupled with ubiquitous use of consumer and patient health technologies and increasing prevalence of application programming interfaces, or APIs, there is potential to expand existing data sources for research.
However, challenges remain to using electronic health data and health IT in research, including limited access to data, data quality issues, inconsistent data collection methods, and limited system functionality. To make data and health IT systems more useful to researchers, it is critical that electronic health data are captured and...
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