Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements Genomics Pilot Project: Enhancing Oncology Research Through Electronic Health Record Interoperability at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center made their Epic electronic health record compatible with mCODE, a FHIR-based consensus data standard for sharing cancer patient data. They built an end-to-end pipeline that converted EHR data into mCODE-compliant profiles and created a web application that visualizes genomic data and provides cancer risk assessments. The project is a proof of concept that mCODE can be integrated into a major health system's existing infrastructure, while also documenting the current limits of FHIR APIs for supporting complex data analysis in oncology research.
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