Out of the electronic health records (EHRs) of patients seen at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a team in the Department of Biomedical Informatics is creating a COVID-19 patient registry as a platform for research.
“Over the next year there will be an urgent need to understand the biological underpinnings of COVID, involving researchers from almost every medical specialty,” said the leader for the registry project, Josh Peterson, MD, MPH, professor of Biomedical Informatics. “And one big-data approach is to aggregate cases from the EHR and curate key outcomes and phenotypes within the data, to make it easier for researchers to conduct more complex analyses.