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CRISP sees role for HIEs as part of learning health system

Healthcare Informatics: Over the years the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), the regional health information exchange serving Maryland and the District of Columbia, has gradually added new services to help with quality reporting and care coordination. Now it is launching a research initiative to let participants use its data to help with clinical research.

“Early on in CRISP’s evolution there was a recognition that an HIE would be a natural part of a learning health system — that there are useful things to find out from data that is aggregated from multiple institutions,” said Ross Martin, M.D., program director for research and transformation at CRISP. He is responsible for establishing CRISP's new clinical and operational research capabilities, in support of participating organizations' research efforts. In an interview with Healthcare Informatics, Martin described some of the steps involved in setting up the research initiative.

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