Study: EMRs useful for testing prescription drug efficacy

post Category: EMR, EMR Research — Practice Partner @ 9:00 am — post
postFebruary 20, 2009

A recent study just presented yet another benefit of EMR software platforms: testing prescription drug efficacy. From FierceHealthIt:

“A new study has concluded that electronic medical records can be as effective as randomized clinical trials in evaluating drug efficacy.

“The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, compared six previously completed randomized trials with 17 measured outcomes drawn from data in the United Kingdom’s general practice research database. The UK database contains medical records for about eight million patients.”

Read more about the study here. Learn more about EMR software from Practice Partner here.

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