Can EHRs offer personalized care to every patient?
The potential for electronic health records (EHRs) to streamline healthcare has been promised for years—but EHRs may have the ability to personalize treatment for every patient.
NPR's Richard Harris outlines EHR advancements in some of the biggest healthcare companies such as Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger Health System.
"Patients are always saying, 'Don't just give me the averages, tell me what happened to others who look like me and made the same treatment decisions I did,'" said Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH, head of Kaiser's research division. "And tell me not only did they live or die, but tell me what their quality of life was about."
EHRs could soon be a type of search engine. A patient, for example, could search for “pancreatic cancer” and have treatment histories from various healthcare systems. Users can further specialize their search by checking off topics centered on cancer stage, patient age, type of treatment and outcomes.
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