Kaiser Permanente gets a big boost for research relative to a full study of how electronic medical records improve health care for cardiovascular care....and will determine the role that KP Health Connect plays as it is being examined by many as a potential model for others...BD
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded $600,000 to Kaiser Permanente's Center for
Health Research for a study that uses electronic medical records to examine heart disease prevention and management in 175,000 adults to find ways to improve the quality of cardiovascular care nationwide.
The two-year study, which will begin to yield findings next summer, will review medical records of 175,000 men and women at Kaiser Permanente's Hawaii region to analyze how following care guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention and management are connected to morbidity, mortality, and costs of heart disease. "This is the first study to our knowledge that connects the degree to which each patient and each clinical practice adhere to evidence-based care guidelines to the risk of disease events that those guidelines are designed to prevent."
Study Of Electronic Records For Heart Disease Funded By Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality
0 comments :
Post a Comment