Establishment of a clinical research big data center in a hospital in Henan province / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

In the era of big data, hospital′s research data platform development is faced with challenges in how to strengthen the deep and efficient application of medical big data in their clinical research. The authors studied such problems of a tertiary hospital in Henan as low data value density, difficulty in structuring medical text language and mismatch between clinical research thinking and ability, in terms of the use of existing clinical data exploration system and effective use of data. Based on results of the study, they summarized relevant measures for effective use of medical data and considerations in the establishment of a clinical research big data center.For example, combination of " pre-structuring" and " post-structuring" in data collection for data quality control; exploration of deep mining of medical text data using machine learning technology based on unstructured text data, and perfection the intelligent analysis application function of clinical research big data; enhancement of talent training to promote clinicians′ capacity in using clinical big data; and enhancement of multi-disciplinary teambuilding and composite talent cultivation, for the purposes of more efficient use of medical big data and higher efficiency and quality of clinical research.