Electronic Medical Records
Develop a national database of voluntarily-provided electronic medical records. Expanding the information available on people who have been screened for cancer, are at high risk, are actively being treated, and are cancer survivors will greatly contribute to the knowledge and treatment of cancer. The pilot seeks to link this array of medical information, provided with patient consent with safeguards for confidentiality and security, through NCI’s electronic patient data repository: Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™ (caBIG™). Enhancing community hospitals’ ability to create and use technology that works with caBIG™ could lead to a nationwide network of voluntarily-provided patient information on cancer that will provide enormous benefits to cancer researchers.
