How scientists, clinicians created a research-friendly patient data storage system

Digital data collection during routine clinical practice has become ubiquitous for hospitals and health systems, yet the archiving systems that store this data are often not designed to support research, according to Jan. 3. study published in Scientific Data

Typical archival systems are optimized for storage, not interpretability and analysis. But MIMIC-IV, a contemporary electronic health record dataset covering a decade of admissions between 2008 and 2019, created as a result of a collaboration between Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology, could be the answer. 

MIMIC-IV collects information such as patient measurements, orders, diagnoses, procedures, treatments and deidentified free-text clinical notes from the EHR, which in turn is able to support a wide array of research studies and educational material. 

Researchers suggest that this kind of open-source database could help to reduce barriers to conducting clinical research.

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