Healthcare IT News 10/12/2020

We created a website called EHRN. Studying the data from our customers’ patients allows us to have access to somewhere between 100 million and 200 million patients right now. Eventually, it will be more than 200 million in the whole database if everyone contributes. EHRN is looking at that data and trying to find out, especially with COVID-19 right now, what is there that we should share.

The reason we created the EHRN (Epic Health Research Network) is we started doing some studies on the data and then realized that if we sent the results of those studies to some of the very highly respected journals, it will take months for it to get out. And things like mortality rates with ventilators were important to get out right away. Or is there any preventive drug that helps reduce the effects of COVID-19? That would be important to get out right away. And so we created EHRN so that a study can be done and it could be published rapidly.

Care Everywhere pulls in the data from all over about the patient. Think of it as if you’re on the [hospital] ship Comfort and here comes a gurney with the patient. And all you know is the patient’s name. You could estimate the age and a few other things, but it’s just a body lying there. How do you take good care of that patient?

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