Facilitating access to clinical data stored in Electronic Health Record and Information Warehouse

Research Informatics Services facilitates access to data housed in The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's Electronic Health Record and Information Warehouse, including clinical encounters, demographics, finance, procedures, medications, laboratory results, clinical reports, order entry and radiology images.

Researchers can use the Information Warehouse honest broker protocol to access de-identified clinical data for non-FDA research without having to invest the significant time and effort necessary to craft a formalized protocol for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. Researchers with IRB approval can utilize identified data from the Information Warehouse in their research.

Researcher access to the Enterprise Data Warehouse: 

• Allows for the conduct of feasibility analyses and/or preliminary investigations
• Allows for the conduct of retrospective data analysis studies
• Alleviates the need for conducting manual chart reviews
• Enables the capture and transfer of clinical data in real time to a research database
• Provides the ability to perform multi-dimensional analysis and data mining, text mining, natural language processing and image analysis

Researcher access to Electronic Health Record is managed by The Health Information System Access Committee (HISARC)

Request clinical data for research via an Honest Broker. Please send any questions about research data requests to askrit@osumc.edu