There are advantages of doing research as separate individual patient centred projects without formal deadlines driven by large grant funding? You could be contributing to research without even realizing it as most of your de-identified narrative datasets can be mined at a later date but the best part is to be aware that your efforts toward helping your patient with a complex problem can be mined to help other patients.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/health/mining-electronic-records-for-revealing-health-data.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0