“While dozens of media outlets picked up on a Kaiser Permanente-led study, published in the American Journal of Managed Care, about how a “bundle” of two low-cost medications could prevent heart attacks, nearly every report I saw missed out on one major detail of the report: The researchers would never have found a link without the help of EMRs and predictive modeling technology.
Kaiser mined its KP HealthConnect EMR–its name for the Epic Systems installation across all nine Kaiser regions–to find patients at risk for heart attack or stroke to participate in the study. Once the program started, the EMR helped Kaiser clinicians track their patients’ adherence to the recommended treatment.”
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Neil Versel, FierceEMR, 8 October 2009
