DESAM-ForNet Portal: A Novel Infrastructure to Integrate Distributed Information from Practice-Based Research Networks in the German Healthcare System.

Currently the German healthcare system does not have a generic structure to answer research questions in primary care through clinical studies. The DESAM-ForNet initiative was founded as an association of German Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRN), to propose an appropriate and feasible solution. Aim is the integration of distributed, consensual information from practices into a single point of contact.