Using an EHR for Population Health: What’s missing?

IBM December 12, 2017
Anil Jain, MD

While the electronic health record (EHR) will continue to be important, it was not originally designed to serve as the hub of longitudinally organized person and population level data such as administrative (claims, benefits, etc.), clinical, sociodemographics, genomics, and patient-generated health data (PGHD). Healthcare organizations must leverage enterprise data to meet the needs of growing populations under their management.

First, we must recognize what EHRs CAN do:
• EHRs provide the mechanism for documenting encounters, procedures, vital signs, and physical exams.
• EHRs facilitate much of the workflow that clinicians follow in their everyday work.
• Practices use EHRs to provide documentation to support billing codes.
• The EHR is the basis of the medical-legal record, which is critical for...

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