This study has helped guide the development of the EHR4CR informatics platform and highlight areas where there is a need to clarify and emphasise data security, privacy, and information governance issues in the roll-out of the platform.
Health researchers, undertaking research amenable to quantitative analysis, once tended to emphasise data collected from clinical records (e.g. numbers of treatments or hospital readmissions) or from observations by health professionals (e.g. participants' abilities performing functional tasks measured on clinician-administered tools).
The training of investigators, deliberately emphasised collecting data systematically and then using this data to develop a theory, rather than starting with a preconceived theory and testing with data.
The government emphasised retained data was a vital tool for the security services and was necessary in order to safeguard national security and investigate crime.
Its importance appeared to be emphasised by data published on Sunday showing that foreign banks with affiliates in the UK account for a large share of international banking activity in London.
Although imaging is extensively used for pre-operative and procedural planning, it should be emphasised that data demonstrating improved clinical outcome secondary to the use of imaging are still limited.
This was also emphasised during data collection.
It should, therefore, be emphasised that data relating to nutritional intake do not extend to a comparison between small intestinal feeding and intragastric feeding with concurrent gastrokinetic drug administration.
While many observers of cloud computing tend to emphasise the data storage elements of cloud infrastructure, the paper by Boutaba et al. rightly emphasises the exciting role of distributed computation in the cloud.
It is also important to emphasise that data from a single study carried out in one setting may not be applicable to other settings.
