Clinical Research Informatics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Richesson, Rachel L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Andrews, James E. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Series: Health Informatics,
• Subjects: Health informatics.; Health administration.; Laboratory medicine.; Health Informatics.; Health Administration.; Laboratory Medicine.

This extensively revised new edition comprehensively reviews the rise of clinical research informatics (CRI). It enables the reader to develop a thorough understanding of how CRI has developed and the evolving challenges facing the biomedical informatician in the modern clinical research environment...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Section I: Contexts of Clinical Research Informatics
• From Notations to Data: The Digital Transformation of Clinical Research
• The Clinical Research Environment
• Methodological Foundations of Clinical Research
• Informatics Approaches to Participant Recruitment
• The Evolving Role of Consumers
• Clinical Research in the Post-genomic Era
• Section II: Data Management and Systems in Clinical Research
• Clinical Research Information Systems
• Study Protocol Representation
• Data Quality in Clinical Research
• Patient-Reported Outcome Data
• Biobanking Challenges and Informatics Opportunities
• Laboratory Data
• Patient Registries
• Knowledge Representation and Discovery
• Section III: Knowledge Representation and Ontologies
• Non hypothesis-driven Research: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Natural Language Processing, Electronic Health Records, and Clinical Research
• The Future of Clinical Research, Health, and Clinical Research Informatics
• Data Governance
• Data Sharing: Electronic Health Records and Research Interoperability
• Standards Development and the Future of Research Data Sources, Interoperability, and Exchange
• Pharmacovigilance
• Clinical Trials Registries and Results Databases
• Future Directions in Clinical Research Informatics.