Using Health Data

AcademyHealth convened the Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum to collect, synthesize, and share lessons from eleven projects that are building infrastructure and using electronic clinical data for comparative effectiveness research (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). This paper provides a brief review of participating projects and provides a framework of common challenges.

This paper discusses cross-cutting challenges and opportunities for research projects participating in the Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum.

This report is an EDM Forum-authored paper.