How The EHR And New Data Streams Are Influencing Clinical Practice

A plethora of clinical studies are showing that new types of data, often captured in the EHR, can help improve the correlation between treatments and outcomes and favorably affect patient care as well as enhance drug development.

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Mining EHR data to create a more complete picture of the patient • Source: Gayle Rembold Furbert

In many ways, the electronic health record (EHR) remains the central tool for capturing the plethora of new streams of data bubbling through health care. Phenotype measures, patient-reported outcomes (often acquired using digital technology), information on habits and environment, baseline genomic data, claims data and other information increasingly funneled into the EHR are adding to a more complete picture of the patient.

Pharma and hi-tech companies are taking notice: witness recent events such as Apple’s announced intention to make health records portable...

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