The Electronic Health Record System Functional Requirements Standard for Clinical Research identifies functionality requirements for using EHR data in regulated clinical research and offers a roadmap for integrating information to support patient care and clinical research processes (Goedert, Health Data Management, 11/5).
(Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 11/6) reportes the new standard could serve as a resource for the Certification Commission for Health IT as it develops new clinical research certification criteria for EHR systems
The American National Standards Institute has approved the standard.