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Journal article
Second generation registry framework
Source Code for Biology and Medicine, Vol.9(1)
2014
Abstract
Background
Information management systems are essential to capture data be it for public health and human disease, sustainable agriculture, or plant and animal biosecurity. In public health, the term patient registry is often used to describe information management systems that are used to record and track phenotypic data of patients. Appropriate design, implementation and deployment of patient registries enables rapid decision making and ongoing data mining ultimately leading to improved patient outcomes. A major bottleneck encountered is the static nature of these registries. That is, software developers are required to work with stakeholders to determine requirements, design the system, implement the required data fields and functionality for each patient registry. Additionally, software developer time is required for ongoing maintenance and customisation. It is desirable to deploy a sophisticated registry framework that can allow scientists and registry curators possessing standard computing skills to dynamically construct a complete patient registry from scratch and customise it for their specific needs with little or no need to engage a software developer at any stage.
Results
This paper introduces our second generation open source registry framework which builds on our previous rare disease registry framework (RDRF). This second generation RDRF is a new approach as it empowers registry administrators to construct one or more patient registries without software developer effort. New data elements for a diverse range of phenotypic and genotypic measurements can be defined at any time. Defined data elements can then be utilised in any of the created registries. Fine grained, multi-level user and workgroup access can be applied to each data element to ensure appropriate access and data privacy. We introduce the concept of derived data elements to assist the data element standards communities on how they might be best categorised.
Conclusions
We introduce the second generation RDRF that enables the user-driven dynamic creation of patient registries. We believe this second generation RDRF is a novel approach to patient registry design, implementation and deployment and a significant advance on existing registry systems.
Details
- Title
- Second generation registry framework
- Authors/Creators
- M.I. Bellgard (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityL. Render (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityM. Radochonski (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityA. Hunter (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Source Code for Biology and Medicine, Vol.9(1)
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Identifiers
- 991005546345607891
- Copyright
- © 2014 Bellgard et al.;
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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