“The U.S. health care system is on the verge of a new era in which distributed health data networks will assure local control of sensitive individual patient data, while providing medical researchers and policy makers access to powerful aggregate data on millions of patients, according to a pair of articles in the September 1 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
In one article, Judith C. Maro, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and colleagues described the attributes and capabilities of a distributed health data network to facilitate studies of comparative clinical effectiveness, distribution of medical technologies, and dissemination of best practices and improved quality of care. The researchers recommended incremental implementation of initial networks with limited datasets to guide development of the most efficient network designs and data model.”
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Modern Medicine, 31 July 2009
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