Topic: "Data Mapping Patient Reported Outcomes to Support Remote Patient Monitoring" 

Presenters: Jeffrey Curtis, MD, MS, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinial Immunology and Rheumatology, UAB Heersink School of Medicine 

Alfredo Guzman, MSH, MEng, Director, Information Technology & Data Services, Research and Informatics Service Center;  Information Technology Operations Project Manager, 1917 Outpatient Clinic, UAB Heersink School of Medicine

Description: Supported in part by the NIH (NIAMS), the Cloud-based Assessment Service (CBAS) is Software as a Service (SaaS) that provides a valuable solution across multiple software platforms to enable efficient electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) and other patient questionnaire data.

Various enhancements to this solution allow conditional logic to facilitate instrument branching, passing parameters in and out, and returning standardized or bespoke LOINC and local HCPCS codes to enable clients to store results in structured formats.

Data mapping between CBAS and various software clients relies heavily on the UMLS. We will describe a use case of implementation of CBAS into a national rheumatology registry funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and its impending use to support a national remote therapeutic monitoring program (RTM) deployed via a smartphone app.