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by gmarx 3383 days ago
Now you've hit my area of expertise. This might help enable large retrospective cohort studies but would not be sufficient. In order to do that the universal system would need to do several things which are unlikely: 1)Universal clinically meaningful data model 2) Extensive use of standard terminology codes 3) good model of timeline 4) user interface which encourages the entry of discrete data over free text