News Items Related to EHR

Very detailed view in the re-identification issue. This is a 3rd part of a series.

I’m surprised that only 45% of hospitals have a data warehouse of some sort.  I wonder if the main constraint is the difficulty in obtaining and extracting out the meaningful data from current EHR systems (or the lack of).

Excellent article on the future of EHR and MPH population activity & research.

The right perspective on getting patients not just involved with their own care, but going to the next level of ensuring that the patient is a part of the research being conducted.  The picture gets more complex, but potential benefits all the greater.

Wow! A $1 billion investment by IBM in its own Watson product sets the stage for some major competition regarding contextual data analysis in a number of very important markets.

Two good articles in one!

To summarize EHR useage: garbage in, garbage out.  Best to have good data going in to have more effective clinical outcomes and research potential.

Would be nice if the article could have included market share by individuals covered (checked source data, wasn’t there). But gives a good idea on the top vendors in the game and the huge necessity and effort for the ability to exchange data in some fashion for research purposes.

This isn’t exactly EHR/Research related, but I can only emphasize that one should print this out and tape it to the inside of their notebook! Great info for quickly going back and checking what a researcher is exactly saying or asking for in an analysis.

Easier done with controlled data like at the VA. Much more difficult in a more competitive environment with smaller data sets to work with. But the principle is great. In addition, one of the greatest challenges is having a clinical and/or billing-focused EHR available for epidemiological types of analysis across patient populations. Not a small endeavor!