Abstract: A system and method of for analyzing, collecting, and tracking patient data across a vast patient population is disclosed. The system and method comprise a plurality of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems provided at a plurality of healthcare provider sites, each EHR system comprising at least one means for capturing data for a plurality of patients in real time; at least one research system for generating a dataset by performing at least one of analyzing, collecting, and tracking the data captured by the plurality of EHR systems in real time as the data is captured or from a database on which the captured data is stored; and at least one workstation for setting the criteria by which the research system analyzes, collects and tracks the data captured by the plurality of EHR systems and for viewing the dataset generated by the at least one research system, wherein the dataset includes the data that corresponds to each of the criteria set at the workstation.