Medical Xpress February 12, 2025
Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers have recently published a piece in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, or JMIR. The study titled “Twenty-Five Years of Evolution and Hurdles in Electronic Health Records and Interoperability in Medical Research: Comprehensive Review,” explores how electronic health records’ use in medical research has evolved over the past 25 years. Dr. Yun Shen and Dr. Gang Hu have extensive experience in working with electronic health records to study chronic diseases, population health trends, and predictive analytics.
Primarily used for sharing patient data among health care providers, the two and a half decades of records have been funneled through big data analytics and the sophisticated applications of artificial intelligence, generating previously unseen patterns and driving medical...