Mayer, Miguel Ángel, 1960-Furlong, Laura I., 1971-Torre Lloveras, PilarPlanas Costa, IgnacioCots Reguant, FrancescIzquierdo Asensio, ElisabetPortabella Marcos, JordiRovira Fontanals, JavierGutiérrez Sacristán, AlbaSanz, Ferran2015-11-202015-11-202015Mayer MA, Furlong LI, Torre P, Planas I, Cots F, Izquierdo E et al. Reuse of EHRs to Support Clinical Research in a Hospital of Reference. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;210:224-6. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-2240926-9630http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25166Most hospitals have already implemented information systems and Electronic Health Records (EHRs), but the reuse of such data for research is still infrequent. We present a pilot project on the exploitation of clinical information from a Spanish hospital database in the context of the European Medical Information Framework project (EMIF). Specific use cases such as patients with diabetes mellitus type 2, obesity and dementia were assessed, by exploiting EHR data integrated from several separated clinical databases. The possibility to analyse the features of specific groups of patients based on their diagnosis codes can provide new data about relationships between different conditions that can contribute for decision-making, healthcare and research.application/pdfeng© 2015 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. DOI:10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-224Informació--Sistemes d'emmagatzematge i recuperacióHospitals -- Investigacióinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-224info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess