Using EHR Data to Identify Clinical Trial Patient Cohorts

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, Mayo Clinic and the University of Texas have received a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Library of Medicine to continue their work developing and evaluating methods to identify patient cohorts for clinical research studies based on patient data in the electronic health record.

Many clinical research studies struggle to reach patient enrollment goals. One way to increase enrollment is identify individuals who might be candidates for such studies by processing the data in their EHR. OHSU faculty members Steven Bedrick, Ph.D., and William Hersh, M.D., have been collaborating with colleagues from Mayo Clinic (Hongfang Liu, Ph.D.) and University of Texas Houston Health Science Center at Houston (Kirk Roberts, Ph.D.) on this work.