Retrieve Protocol for Execution (RPE)

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Retrieve Protocol for Execution (RPE)

• Value Proposition RPE will greatly simplify a
  healthcare sites participation in clinical
  research by integrating workflow from the
  research protocol into the work processes of
  patient care.

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Retrieve Protocol for Execution (RPE)

• Abstract The Retrieve Protocol for Execution
  Profile (RPE) provides an automated mechanism for
  EHRs to retrieve a complex set of clinical
  research instructions (or a protocol) from an
  formally expressed research protocol to execute
  within the EHR.

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Scope

• RPE works in the space between the EHR and the
  clinical research system (EDC). Three actors
  participate in automating workflow
• Protocol Definition Manager
• Protocol State Manager
• Protocol Executor

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Key Technical Properties

• RPE is an early adoption of the workflow
  automation standard Business Process Execution
  Language (BPEL) applied to formal protocol
  representation and execution in an EHR.
• Web Services will be used to transport the data
• XML standard structures will be used to package
  the messages