ICD-11 Helps Link East-West Clinical Data for Potential Drug Discovery

With the advancement of computational science and technology, medical records have been transformed from the previous handwritten mode to the electronic format. Precise and systematic storage of patient data including demographics, diagnosis, medication, laboratory test results and radiological reports is possible. Retrospective investigation of the electronic health records (eHR) could probably find novel relationships between diseases reevaluate drug usage and discover phenotype–genotype associations