Creating a Common Data Model for Comparative Effectiveness with the Observational Medical Outcomes...

Conclusion: The data transformation to the CDM was time consuming and resources required were substantial, beyond requirements for collecting native source data. The need to manually code subsets of data limited the conversion. However, once the native data was converted to the CDM, both systems were then able to use the same queries to identify cohorts. Thus, the CDM minimized the effort to develop cohorts and analyze the results across the sites....
Source: Applied Clinical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research