Core Activities

The Technical Data Core focuses on leveraging electronic health records (EHRs), administrative data, and other health care system data sources to conduct embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) among people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners.

Core members develop and disseminate algorithms to identify, characterize, and provide relevant health outcomes for PLWD and their care partners from EHRs, administrative datasets, and secondary and primary data sources. They enable investigator access to data derived from remote enclaves and provide technical assistance to investigators conducting ePCTs among PLWD and their care partners with regard to:  power calculations, recruitment, automating data extraction, quantifying outcomes, and embedding trial-specific clinical notifications or adherence monitoring reports into EHRs.