Tapping Into Underutilized Healthcare Data in Clinical Research

The new digital era of medicine presents immense opportunity to leverage data that would have been too difficult to acquire by manual means. Traditional registries, including the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) database and the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR), acquire data by manually abstracting information from electronic medical records to fill a predefined list of data fields. In this process, the original high-dimensional...