The EMERSE Research Network allows participating sites to securely search the free text repositories at all other participating sites to support cross-institutional cohort identification. This capability is extremely important for some types of research including studies involving rare diseases for which no specific ICD-10 or other code exists. For those familiar with the i2b2/ACT network, the EMERSE Research Network works in a similar manner except that with EMERSE the source data are unstructured free text notes, not structured data. No identifiable information ever leaves a site — only obfuscated counts travel across the network. And thresholds can be set to ensure that small cell counts cannot be obtained.
presented by JC Jeong, PhD
Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics, and a faculty member in the Markey Cancer Center (MCC) Cancer Research Informatics (CRI) Shared Resource Facility where he serves as Manager of the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC).
