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The Electronic Health Record User Innovation Collaborative is focused on developing clinical databses to effectively search for information on diagnostic and treatment interventions. Participants with relevant expertise, specifically those with IT or Healthcare Delivery capacity, will collaborate on a project that examines the technical feasibility of creating a tool to search clinical databases and applying this information to clinical data systems. Details on the approach and timetable can be found below in the attached document.
Issue: Progress in improving both the effectiveness and efficiency of medical care requires substantially enhanced use of electronic health records for real-time insights.
- •The information generated during pre-market assessment of interventions will be limited in the ability to discern the full range of safety and effectiveness issues for a new diagnostic or treatment approach.
- Study conditions may be distant from those of real-world usage and often lack evaluation of cost-effectiveness.
- Because the system for monitoring the results of clinical interventions in the course of their use is too frequently haphazard, fragmented, inefficient, and tardy in the production of findings, there is a clear need for enhanced real-time information on the use of new (and existing) interventions.
- Absent uniform EHR standards that would enable easy cross-vendor data aggregation, other approaches are needed for current and emerging large EHR user groups to cooperate in the assessment of the absolute and relative effectiveness and efficiency of health care practices, products and procedures.
Project:
An ad hoc convening activity under the auspices of the IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, periodically bringing together representatives from organizations using electronic health records from different vendors. In general terms, the intent is to:
- •identify common issues and interests
- •explore collaborative and coordinated projects
- •facilitate the contributions of organizations using electronic health records in advancing the frontiers of the learning healthcare system.
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