# HEALTH RECORDS FOR RESEARCH

## Achieve your **_next medical breakthrough_**

There is much to be discovered by the life sciences community. Real-world, timely patient data is what fuels this innovation, providing evidence and driving analysis for pharmaceutical and medical device research. Fortunately, vast amounts of patients’ data are digital. But the challenge is capturing it from multiple EHR systems, ensuring its quality and getting complete, timely updates.

Greenlight Health Data Solutions empowers life science organizations, CROs, and academic researchers to easily access patient-consented medical records that are highly codified and frequently refreshed. Using top quality health data at hand, accelerate your mission to discover your next breakthrough and prove better patient outcomes.

## Research **_with confidence_**

Launch new research projects, recruit and enroll participants in clinical trials, and validate your theories. Greenlight technology gives you access to the right patient health data at the right time. Pursue your medical research ideas while backing them up with evidence and analysis.

##### Patient Information

Life science researchers request patient data to authorize access to clinical trials and research studies.

##### Patients

Patient authorizes access to share their health data with life science organizations and researchers.

Greenlight identifies location of patient’s healthcare provider’s EHR system

##### Healthcare Providers’ EHR System

EHR systems securely receive requests to access patient medical records and support right to access.

##### Life Sciences

Approved requestors access patient data in minutes from healthcare providers’ EHR system via a secure API, and can receive updates automatically for ongoing research studies.

Greenlight digitally retrieves records and makes them available to authorized requestors

## **_Top benefits_** for life sciences

### Streamline patient recruitment and enrollment in clinical research trials

### Confirm your findings with validated, patient-consented, real-world data

### Generate stronger evidence to boost reimbursement

### Create connected patient registries to foster and accelerate collaborative research

### Conduct effective HEOR studies that lead to improved policies and patient results

### Provide healthcare data liquidity for continued research and innovation

## **_Explore resources_** for life sciences

#### Article

**_[New Federal Rule Establishes Penalties for Information Blocking](https://greenlighthealth.com/new-federal-rule-establishes-penalties-for-information-blocking/)_**

The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) announces new costly fines of up to $1 million per information blocking violation as part of the 21st Century Cures Act.

#### Services Overview

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Greenlight offers a secure, efficient digital workflow with EHR data shared by patients. See how you can accelerate recruitment for clinical trials through early inclusion of EHRs screening in optimal participants.

#### White Paper

_**[The Long & Winding Road to the Information Blocking Rule](https://greenlighthealth.com/the-long-winding-road-to-the-information-blocking-rule/)**_

Hailed as Data Liberation Day by the government, the Information Blocking Rule (IBR) went into effect on October 6, 2022. This health policy is really about information sharing and empowering the patient to take ownership of their health data.