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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2016 Apr 5;133(14):1410–1418. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.019506

Table 1.

Strengths and weaknesses of the current CHD data environment.

Strengths Weaknesses
Numerous data sources Data silos
Existing local infrastructure Lack of comprehensive data integration
Multi-institutional collaboration
Standardized nomenclature
Lack of a collaborative data governance model
Application of many data linkage techniques Limited infrastructure to support wide scale data integration and analysis
Limited longer-term outcomes data

CHD = congenital heart disease