“Doctors could predict a patient’s risk of receiving a domestic abuse diagnosis years in advance by using electronic medical records as an early warning system, according to research published on the British Medical Journal website.
Lead author Dr Ben Reis from the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program and Harvard Medical School investigated whether the wealth of historical electronic data could be used to flag up high risk patients.”
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ScienceDaily, 29 September 2009
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