Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“Researchers from Archimedes Inc., a San Francisco-based health care company, applied complex mathematical models to the electronic medical records of almost 3,000 hypertensive patients who had been followed for over a decade.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“For as long as I can remember, individualized therapy has been the Holy Grail of clinical medicine. But given the complexity of human disease, “The Impossible Dream” might be a more fitting metaphor.
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Healthcare IT News
“Three major health organizations, the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, have collaborated to create a quality improvement program aimed at improving outpatient care nationwide. Working with electronic health records providers from around the country, the program will provide doctors with the ability to easily gather, access and report on important data that can ultimately lead to improved care and outcomes for patients.
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White P, Roudsari A. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2011
Ontologies can assist with translating information from an electronic health record to a clinical practice guideline and reformatting it into a compliance report. A 2009 literature search reviews publications on the use of ontologies to support automated reporting of compliance with clinical practice guidelines via electronic health records. Research stage, data-pulling capabilities, ontologies used, and issues raised are some of the comparative data pulled from 13 articles from the literature review results. Suggestions for further research are given.
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Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of guidelines and actions for clinicians within its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system.
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“European and Turkish doctors and technicians are perfecting a medical support system that can track patients’ real-time vital signs, link those to patient medical history, and, crucially, provide the latest clinical guidelines for patient care. Better yet, it can alert doctors when necessary. It’s not a digital doctor, but it’s getting there.
It is called Saphire, and it is an Intelligent Clinical Decision Support System (ICDSS) offering a range of services that combines scattered information stored in different systems into a new, more powerful application.”
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Innovations Report, 8 January 2008
