"Methods And Apparatus For Extraction Of Clinical Trial Data From An Electronic Medical Record" in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20240127914).

A patent application by Abiomed Inc. titled "Methods And Apparatus For Extraction Of Clinical Trial Data From An Electronic Medical Record" describes systems and methods for extracting and de-identifying information from electronic medical records (EMRs) or electronic health records (EHRs) for use in clinical trials. The inventors recognized that manual data entry processes for clinical trials are laborious, time-consuming, and error-prone. The disclosed methods aim to reduce the time and cost of executing a clinical trial while increasing the volume and utility of data collected from a subject's EMR/EHR. The patent application outlines various aspects of the method, including retrieving patient information, de-identifying the data, and providing it as input to an electronic data capture (EDC) system for the clinical trial. The system also includes a subject identification source, subject listing storage, and a hardware processor. The patent application claims several methods and a computerized system for automatically transferring data from an EMR system to an EDC system for use in a clinical trial. [Extracted from the article]