Table 4
Future Directions
| Development and implementation of content standards including clinical definition of terms and ontologies for medical specialty areas |
| Implementation of Single Source in additional sites (including vendors, CROs and sponsors) |
| Investigation of single source methodology for reuse of EHR data |
| Development of CDISC submission data set and semantic markup for more general reuse |
| Development and implementation of terminology code lists to increase semantic interoperability |
| As electronic protocol specification develops, derive CRF and note input templates from protocol |
| Explore use of large repositories of industry-standard clinic notes to encompass inclusion/exclusion testing |
| Add hypertext link (URL) from collected research data to the full clinic note (eSource) |
| Investigate use of natural language processing to extract data from narrative notes to support clinical trials |
| Develop guides for testing Single Source in a platform-independent integration profile |
