Liz Tay reports:
E-health experts have called for information management systems to “harvest” data from electronic health records for medical research.
According to Donald Mon of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), “secondary use” of data by researchers could improve medicine, patient safety and public health.
While current e-health software was “rich in functionality”, Mon said products tended to store information as “free-text” data that could be read by a human but not easily analysed by a machine.
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