Mining electronic health records: towards better research applications and clinical care

Peter B Jensen, Lars J Jensen, Søren Brunak

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Abstract

Clinical data describing the phenotypes and treatment of patients represents an underused data source that has much greater research potential than is currently realized. Mining of electronic health records (EHRs) has the potential for establishing new patient-stratification principles and for revealing unknown disease correlations. Integrating EHR data with genetic data will also give a finer u-derstanding of genotype-phenotype relationships. However, a broad range of ethical, legal and technical reasons currently hinder the systematic deposition of these data in EHRs and their mining. Here, we consider the potential for furthering medical research and clinical care using EHR data and the challenges that must be overcome before this is a reality.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftNature Reviews. Genetics
Vol/bind13
Udgave nummer6
Sider (fra-til)395-405
Antal sider11
ISSN1471-0056
DOI
StatusUdgivet - jun. 2012

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