Becker's Healthcare September 17, 2024
As health systems continue to navigate the complexities of patient care, many are turning to custom-built applications within their Epic EHR systems to address specific needs.
Three health systems — Yale New Haven Health, Emory Healthcare and UChicago Medicine — have recently announced the development of their own Epic applications.
Yale New Haven Health: Predicting risk
Researchers at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health have developed an Epic application that predicts the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients.
This machine learning model analyzes EHR data, including symptoms, lab results and medical history, to generate a clinical risk score for GI bleeding.
The researchers noted that building the tool within Epic, the nation’s most widely used EHR system,...