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Centralised Electronic Health Records Research Across Health Organisation Types

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Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2013)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 452))

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Where health and care provision is divided across organisation types, such as child health and palliative care, it is difficult for researchers to access comprehensive healthcare data. Integrated electronic health records offer an opportunity for research into care delivered within and across organisations. In this paper a new centralised model for accessing such data is justified using the critical success factors of an established research data provider. This validates a model that will facilitate integrated health research to inform the evidence base and systems used in clinical practice across organisations.

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  1. Leeds Institute for Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Samantha S. R. Crossfield & Susan E. Clamp

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Mireya Fernández-Chimeno

  2. Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

    Pedro L. Fernandes

  3. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

    Sergio Alvarez

  4. University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

    Deborah Stacey

  5. University of Vic, Vic, Spain

    Jordi Solé-Casals

  6. Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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  7. New University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Hugo Gamboa

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Crossfield, S.S.R., Clamp, S.E. (2014). Centralised Electronic Health Records Research Across Health Organisation Types. In: Fernández-Chimeno, M., et al. Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 452. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44485-6_27

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