The research pipeline
From clinical question to published cohort, in four steps.
Define an outcome
Specify the clinical question, a diagnosis, a risk threshold, a care pathway outcome. The ILM maps it to computable phenotypes already indexed in your institutional data.
Pull every matching patient
Longitudinal cohorts assemble automatically from routine clinical documentation. No manual chart review. No retrospective extraction. No data wrangling.
Query and compare
Interrogate the cohort across time, intervention, subgroup, and outcome. The ILM keeps the cohort live, new patients matching your criteria accrue prospectively.
Publish with confidence
Data lineage is built in. Every patient record has an audit trail of how it was captured, de-identified, and included. Grant applications and journal submissions start with the audit trail, not after it.
Capabilities
Built into every ILM deployment.
Computable phenotyping
Clinical concepts, diagnoses, lab thresholds, medication patterns, are automatically translated into computable criteria from your own EHR, not a generic ontology.
Prospective by design
Define your cohort today. The ILM continues adding patients who match your criteria as they present, turning any study into a living prospective dataset without protocol amendments.
De-identification at the boundary
De-identification happens at the ILM layer, before cohort data is ever surfaced for research queries. Patient identity never enters the research pipeline.
Re-queryable follow-up
As your cohort accrues follow-up, re-run the query. Outcomes that weren't visible at baseline become accessible without re-extracting data or revisiting records.
Pharma collaboration framework
When external collaborators want access to your cohort, AIIM provides a governed query interface, no data leaves your institution. The query runs inside your walls; only the result is shared.
Multi-site federation
For studies that require population scale, ILM-generated cohort gradients can federate across consenting institutions, without raw patient data crossing any boundary.