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Many institutions would like to harness their electronic health record (EHR) data for research. However, with many EHR systems, this process is remarkably difficult. We have been using our vast EHR system for research very effectively, with substantial research support and many publications. Herein we share our process and provide recommendations for others wanting to utilize their EHR data for research.
Milinovich et al. (2018) studied this question.