Leveraging Health Information Exchange to Construct a Registry for Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke in Indiana

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Apr 16:2017:1440-1449. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI) and stroke are conditions of interest to public health as they can result in long-term outcomes and disabilities. Specialized registries can facilitate public health surveillance, however only 4% of hospitals in the United States actively engage in electronic reporting to these registries. We leveraged electronic claims and clinical data from a health information exchange to create a statewide TBI/SCI/Stroke registry to facilitate the study of long-term outcomes and health services utilization. The registry contains 109,943 TBI patients, 9,027 SCI patients and 117,084 stroke patients with a mean of 3 years of follow-up data after injury. Additionally, the registry contains data on individual patient encounters, prescriptions and clinical variables. The high-dimensional data with large sample sizes may present a valuable informatics resource for injury research as well as public health surveillance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain Injuries, Traumatic / epidemiology*
  • Electronic Health Records*
  • Health Facilities
  • Health Information Exchange
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Indiana / epidemiology
  • Public Health Surveillance
  • Registries*
  • Spinal Cord Injuries / epidemiology*
  • Stroke / epidemiology*