Improved access to patient data is key to managing bottlenecks in clinical research. The presentation gives an overview of one of the largest public-private partnerships aimed at providing adaptable, reusable and scalable solutions for re-using patient level data from Electronic Health Record systems for Clinical Research.The presentation gives an insight into how the EHR4CR platform and services will:

1.    Enable re-use of electronic health records to do better upfront protocol optimization and planning.

Today… A third of protocol amendments are avoidable; over 40% of amendments occur before first patient first dose

2.    Provide tools for sites to identify candidates for clinical trials by electronically searching EHRs in order to improve patient recruitment which is one of the biggest challenges for clinical research.

Today… 50% per cent of clinical trials fail to achieve the target recruitment rate

3.    Connect healthcare and research systems to improve the capture and exchange of clinical trial data.

Today… Over 40% of clinical trial data is entered manually into both healthcare and research systems; Transcription errors increase the workload for monitoring, querying, and responding to queries; Complex processes must be put in place to manage the ‘source’

During 2014 the project will be engaged in activities for externalisation of the platform and services