Dear Jim and Marguerite,
Could you elaborate on this? Easy would be awesome but effective with benefits is even better! My imagination has been sparked by all this and although it could be an IT nightmare at this point maybe it is an information goldmine. Banks etc mine data relentlessly for their own ends to good advantage, it makes sense to Find ways this data could be useful to progress science and help people
Amy
Amy Price PhD
Empower 2 Go
Building Brain Potential
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On 5 Nov 2011, at 09:57, Jim Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Marguerite.
> It is very far from easy, but you and we do it all the time with
> considerable benefits.
> Jim
>
> James M. Walker, MD, FACP
> Chief Medical Information Officer
> Geisinger Health System
>
> The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
> - Alan Kay
>>>> Marguerite Koster 11/04/11 4:29 PM >>>
> Hi -
>
> Kaiser's decision to remove Vioxx from its regional formularies occurred
>
> before the implementation of the organization's EMR. I should add that
> EMR's are still in their infancy, and usually built as clinical
> management
> systems, rather than systems for robust data extraction and analysis.
> People sometimes have the notion that extracting data from an EMR is an
> easy process. Far from it, though, especially if you want a clean and
> accurate dataset. There are also issues with data that is only
> available
> from EMRs in text format.
>
> Marguerite
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