Toward a Platform for Structured Data Acquisition in Oncology: A Pilot Study on Prostate Cancer Screening.

Introduction: Physicians spend an ever-rising amount of time to collect relevant information from highly variable medical reports and integrate them into the patient's health condition.

Objectives: We compared synoptic reporting based on data elements to narrative reporting in order to evaluate its capabilities to collect and integrate clinical information.

Methods: We developed a novel system to align medical reporting to data integration requirements and tested it in prostate cancer screening.