Connecting Healthcare and Clinical Research: Workflow optimizations through seamless integration of EHR, pseudonymization services and EDC systems

In hospitals usually several systems are used which are often disconnected and an integrated workflow over system borders is often not supported. Frequent system changes, different authentications and error-prone transfer of relevant data are the consequence. We proposed a concept for seamless integration of a pseudonymization workflow into the domains of routine care and clinical research. Therefore, interfaces were established between EHR and EDC system with direct integration of a pseudonymization service. This integration facilitates the automatic registration of patients from the EHR and led to a significant reduction of execution time and elimination of transcription errors.

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