Abstract
Templates are widely used as an input support tool for formularized data on EMR. However, conventional EMRs store data provided via templates as simple texts in a certain format. As an EMR is important not only as a patient record for daily clinical activity but also as a data bank for clinical research, the data provided through templates should be stored as structured data sets into databases. Kyoto University Hospital makes EMR to handle the data given through templates as structured data in its new HIS system in 2005. As a result, applications to retrieve data provided via template are widely used, especially for clinical purposes such as intra-hospital cancer data collection, or as media to collect clinical accounting information. On the other hand, clinicians made full use of data retrieval service provided by IT sector with the structured database. However, many clinicians used the service to provide data for their own existing databases for clinical research. The result indicates that further development to incorporate the existing database of each research group into HIS is indispensable in enabling clinicians to make good use of clinical data in their clinical research without additional labor.
