A national survey on the use of EHR systems in clinical research

Every day, more and more health data are captured and documented electronically instead of in stacks of printouts, as it often once was. The near future promises a full transition from paper to electronic records. This digital progress is felt far beyond the initial steps of capturing patient records, however. Health data are a fundamental building block of clinical trials. So the practices of how data are selected and collected are closely linked to the regulatory requirements of clinical trials and how these trials will be run from an operational standpoint.