NIH Roadmap for Medical Research in the 21st Century.
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has defined the NIH roadmap for medical research in the 21st century. One of the basic objectives of this roadmap is to re-engineer the clinical research enterprise.
“At the core of this vision is the need to develop new partnerships of research with organized patient communities, community-based health care providers, and academic researchers. This also includes the need to build better integrated networks of academic centers linked to a qualified body of community-based health care providers who care for large groups of patients and who are interested in working with researchers to quickly develop, test, and deliver new interventions. This vision will require new paradigms in how clinical research information is recorded, new standards for clinical research protocols, modern information technology platforms for research, and new strategies to re-energize our clinical research workforce.”
“Because of the vast number of diagnostic measures, preventive therapies, and treatments that must be evaluated through clinical trials, intervention- and disease-specific clinical research networks have evolved and operate simultaneously, but independently, of each other. As a result, researchers must sometimes duplicate data that already exist because they are either unaware of, or do not have access to, the data. As a result valuable opportunities to evaluate coexisting health conditions in large groups of patients are lost in the process.”
“Ultimately, the goal is to have a common informatics platform that can offer economies of scale and allow complex research programs to benefit from a common infrastructure.”
NSN's Vision
NSN shares the NIH vision to build an integrated network of research oriented spine centers and community-based spine care providers linked by a common informatics platform
- To Improve the Quality of Patient Care
- To Improve the Productivity of the Spine Care Provider
- To Improve the Cost Effectiveness of Spine Research
SpineChart provides this common informatics platform for spine care
