Electronic medical record systems advances show power to help patients

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For decades, electronic medical records have offered the potential for making one patient's experience useful to the next. Such real-world experience could offer insights into which type of person does best on which medication, how best to sequence different drugs or how to add up unusual symptoms into a diagnosis. But unless it was part of a formal research trial, or passed down from one doctor to the next, that type of information hasn't been available. "It's really frustrating to imagine we're this far along in our technology and we're still asking really basic questions like what works for whom and at what cost," said Kristin Kostka, a computational epidemiologist at Northeastern University. Now, several groups are making the kinds of advances that could finally ensure learning from one patient isn't lost. One such system, called Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics, or OHDSI – pronounced “Odyssey" – includes 300 databases and over 800 million patient records, analyze

HEALTH Medical Research Add Topic Electronic medical records have been around decades. Their power to help other patients is starting to be unleashed. Karen Weintraub USA TODAY Nov. 14, 2021, 6:01 a.m. ET For decades, electronic medical records have offered the potential for making one patient's experience useful to the next. Such real-world experience could offer insights into which type of person does best on which medication, how best to sequence different drugs or how to add up unusual symptoms into a diagnosis.

Electronic medical record systems advances show power to help patients

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