The Problem
For a clinician, defining a cohort has always been a lengthy task. Sending information to a group that compiles the data and working through the process can take days or weeks. Cohorts are, in part, duplicates of other cohorts. This duplication of data and thereby duplication of effort makes a cohort creation more difficult. Agility and nimbleness in cohort creation is dampened by the back and forth operation, while protecting the patient data until such time as the cohort has been extracted.
Our Solution
Cohort Builder solves these issues by providing a platform to create reusable phenotype definitions of treatments, co-morbidities, encounters, medications and demographics which can be used in combination to quickly define an redefine a cohort. This flexible way of creating cohorts allows the clinician to quickly retool and broaden or restrict the inclusion and exclusion criteria to ensure the desired pool of possible patients participants by viewing the count of the number of patients that would be included in the current definition of the cohort. This same Cohort Definition can be used for data extraction and verification as approved by IRBs.
