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An Electronic Practice-Based Network for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research
Annals of Internal Medicine, 09/02/09

Pace WD et al. – The Distributed Ambulatory Research in Therapeutics Network (DARTNet) is a federated network of electronic health data from 8 organizations representing more than 500 clinicians and more than 400 000 patients. DARTNet was designed to increase knowledge of the comparative effectiveness of prescription medications and medical devices.

Electronic health record and other clinical data are aggregated, standardized, and stored within each organization, then deidentified and made available for secure queries through the Web.
A full set of patient data never leaves the individual clinical sites.
DARTNet can be used for observational comparative effectiveness research, which may provide important information about safe and effective health care.
DARTNet tools can prompt clinicians to obtain specific information during a patient encounter.
Key clinical information traditionally missing in comparative effectiveness research is now available through DARTNet.