“This time, House, M.D. fans, it was lupus. The article “Evidence-Based Medicine in the EMR Era” published in the Nov. 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine might have read like a House television script, but it was a real-life glimpse of what the most optimistic health IT advocates are hoping will become commonplace in U.S. health care: Mining EHR data to arrive at treatment decisions.
Stanford pediatricians were presented with a 13-year-old lupus patient who they thought should be given anticoagulants, but were resistant because, typically, they aren’t given to patients that young — even when critically ill. They didn’t have “the book” to rely upon in this case, and a consult with in-house experts proved “fruitless and failed to produce a consensus,” the authors wrote.”
Article
Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse, 16 November 2011
Abstract (Frankovich 2011)
