“HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record system, is at the core of a new osteoporosis prevention program that officials say could drop the nation’s hip fracture rate by 25 percent.
The Kaiser initiative will use HealthConnect – dubbed the world’s largest civilian electronic health record database – to collect data on patients that included anti-osteoporosis medication use, bone density scans and fragility fractures.”
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Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News, 9 November 2009
