The Data Tsunami is Here—And it’s Time for “Smart” Views of Clinical Data
MedCity News October 25, 2023
The healthcare industry must prioritize the development and implementation of universal tools that can efficiently navigate, interpret, and derive value from the growing wealth of health data.
A few years ago, some colleagues and I were discussing the implications of the “post-EHR” world, where everyone has electronic health records and, with the pending mandates of the 21st Century Cures Act, systems would soon be required to share data. This discussion arose from the ongoing issue that clinicians still struggle to find clinically relevant information in a patient’s medical record.
We recognized that before the industry can address the problem of finding clinically relevant information in the overwhelming amount of incoming data, we needed to tackle the fact that current “legacy”...