“The full value of investments in electronic medical records, electronic health records and other health IT won’t be realized until the data gathered by those systems finds secondary use, according to a report that was released earlier this month by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
PricewaterhouseCoopers highlighted five case studies, which showed how payers, healthcare associations and health systems are using their aggregated electronic data for healthcare research, quality improvement and post-market drug surveillance, among other uses. Those mature efforts are ongoing. Other efforts need to commence to create a critical mass of secondary use of electronic health data and continue to build the case for EHR and EMR adoption.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch, 15 October 2009
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