CCADD is studying the strategic policy issues to efficiently and seamlessly integrate standalone clinical research systems in Korea such as drug- or disease-registries (public or private), open databases created by the government, and hospital’s electronic medical records (EMRs). This study is sponsored by the Korea National Enterprise for Clinical Trials (KoNECT).

In this study, CCADD has first enumerated the available clinical trial resources in Korea followed by a systematic investigation of the current legal, societal, and cultural frameworks that have prevented clinical trial systems being fully integrated. CCADD has also studied the following topics:

Current status of integration of EMR data in Korea

Technologies available for integration of public health data and hospital EMRs

Availability of a metadata model for integrated clinical research systems in other countries

Roles and responsibilities of the centralized coordinating center for integrated clinical research systems

The results of this study will be published as a white paper around the end of 2017.