Sammanfattning
All facets of health care systems are affected adversely by deficiencies in the collection of clinical data through interviews of patients, which we refer to here as the data
collection problem. This failure to define clinical phenotypes precisely in routine medical care is a barrier to extracting clinically useful information from for example genomic
data and has led us to a dysfunctional, conflicted clinical research enterprise. The data collection problem limits the value of care in that outcomes for patients do not
achieve what is possible through evidence-based application of current knowledge. We review how a software program that interacts directly with the patient to collect
comprehensive and standardized medical histories can resolve the data collection problem with benefits for everyday medical practice, basic medical research and clinical
research.