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Abstract. During its third meeting in December 2000, the Clinical Research Roundtable held a symposium entitled Exploring the Map of Clinical Research for the Coming Decade. Speakers were asked to describe the infrastructure needs and clinical research environment of the next 10 years. Topics included the role and impact of genomics, bioinformatics, and clinical information systems on clinical research, as well as the future of evidence-based medicine. The symposium concluded with a panel of private and public health care purchasers, who discussed their interest and role in clinical research. Repeated themes included the need to encourage collaboration among researchers and between academic health centers and for-profit companies; the need to develop ways of rewarding collaborative research, particularly in academia; the need to develop good data and information management systems that can support huge databases and facilitate mining of clinical information while protecting patient privacy; and the need for more consistent standards for these highly valuable, large, automated population-based research resources, which could permit more effective cross-data system record linkages for population based research.
The Clinical Research Roundtable (CRR) of the National Academies held its third meeting on December 12-13, 2000 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. A public symposium, entitled Exploring the Map of Clinical Research for the Coming Decade, (agenda) was hosted by the CRR as part of its meeting, and was chaired by CRR member David Korn, Senior Vice President for Biomedical and Health Sciences Research of the Association of American Medical Colleges. There were four panels: (1) The Impact of Genomics and Bioinformatics on Clinical Research, (2) The Role of Clinical Information Systems in Clinical Research, (3) What Is Evidence-Based Medicine, and How Do We Get There?, and (4) Should Purchasers of Health Care Be Concerned About Clinical Research?
Speakers were asked to describe the infrastructure needs and research environment of the next 10 years. Much of the discussion among the speakers and roundtable members revolved around the need for collaboration among researchers and the need to develop new ways of evaluating and rewarding this collaborative research, particularly in academic health centers. This report summarizes the general content of each presentation and discussions that occurred at the symposium.
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Related Publications
Exploring the Map of Clinical Research for the Coming Decade: Clinical Research Roundtable Symposium III. National Academy Press: Washington, DC. 2001.
The Future of Clinical Research: The Role of Genomics, Informatics, and Evidenced-Based Medicine. Journal of Investigative Medicine; 49 (1); 10-11. 2001.
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