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Review
. 2007 Oct;48(10):4383-9.
doi: 10.1167/iovs.07-0345.

An electronic medical records system for clinical research and the EMR EDC interface

Elizabeth C Murphy  1 , Frederick L Ferris 3rd, William R O'Donnell
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Review

An electronic medical records system for clinical research and the EMR EDC interface

Elizabeth C Murphy et al. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Oct.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
The ETRDS details screens are hidden within a pop-up accessed from the Acuity-ETDRS button on the main technician screen. Only the total number of letters and Snellen equivalents are displayed on the main technician screen, for easy viewing.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The physicians screens provide for fast access to record findings and to a comprehensive set of collected data points by compartmentalizing the data into pop-ups (in this case for the lens examination).
Figure 3
Figure 3
The protocol screens pull in data from multiple different screens throughout the system, giving researchers a quick view of the protocol-mandated data. This method enables them to avoid missing data and to collect study-specific data points. In this particular screen, most of the data were from elsewhere in the system, but the “Natural Lens” field had to be created anew to satisfy the need to record the pertinent negative.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Not only are the study-specific data collected onto summary screens in the NextGen system, they are also collected into separate data tables for local analysis or submission to the CRO. The collection is accomplished with a commercial tool from Cognos (Burlington, MA). This image shows data taken from demographic, physician, and technician screens as well as the Visit Date, which is system-managed data.
Figure 5
Figure 5
As the NEI clinic is part of a larger hospital, examination documentation must be provided for inclusion in the patient’s overall medical record. The NextGen system provides a link to Crystal Reports which allows generation of a translated, summarized report of the NEI examination in paper form.
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