The PaTH Clinical Research Network (CRN) developed this guide to explain how electronic health record (EHR) data is captured, protected, and utilized for research purposes via a chocolate-making analogy.
Data Resource
PaTH to Health: Diabetes, Chocolate Making & Data Extraction Video
This video on electronic health data utilizes the metaphor of making chocolate to clearly lay out how electronic health records can be used to anonymize data. It is a useful tool for clearly explaining EHRs and the privacy inherent in building a research network.
Measuring an Epidemic
Speakers John Muench, MD, MPH and Thuy Le, MPH, both of OCHIN discuss the liberalizing of chronic opioid prescribing in the 90s was soon followed by unforeseen harm to individuals and communities.
Muench and Le review the history of the rise in opioid addiction and overdose deaths, prior efforts to track pain medication prescriptions, and current efforts to organize the ADVANCE Clinical Research Network electronic health record data to more easily describe prescribing pattern changes that follow interventions at national, state, and clinic levels.
Common Data Model Glossary
This is the PCORnet Common Data Model Glossary. Use this to learn how terms are used in the context of the PCORnet Common Data Model.
Creative Commons: Extending the Value of PCORnet Efforts
This presentation goes over the differences between intellectual property and data, Open Access, attributions, and Creative Commons licenses.
Speaker: John Wilbanks