Clinical Event

Vernacular Definition

1. 1.

   In event planning circles, a “clinical event” is an event, e.g., meeting or party, attended by clinicians as opposed to administrative or financial personnel.

Technical Definitions

1. 1.

   A state transition, normally a “create” or “update” state transition, targeting a record in an electronic medical record system or one of the systems associated with an electronic medical record system.

2. 2.

   A report generated within a clinical trial that is subsequently evaluated for the presence of an adverse event by a clinical trial Clinical Event Committee.

Words often confused by use of the term “Clinical Event” include: Clinical Event (multiple definitions); Adverse Event; Clinical Act; Patient Event, Information Event.

The primary technical definition of “clinical event” includes the kind of “events” that are monitored by a “clinical event monitor” [1, 2, 3] used in synchronous or asynchronous decision support functions. Examples of these events include clinical...

Authors and Affiliations

1. Oracle Health Sciences, Redwood Shores, CA, USA

   Dan Russler

2. Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

   Dan Russler

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Correspondence to Dan Russler .

Editors and Affiliations

1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

   Ling Liu

2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

   M. Tamer Özsu

1. Director, Clinical Programs, CIGNA Healthcare, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA

   Vipul Kashyap

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