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Article: Drilling Down; PACS comes to life with add-on database tool.(Clinical Quality Reporting)
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Byline: Gary Baldwin, Editorial Director
When urologists at Detroit's Henry Ford Health System wanted to do a quality study around abscess drainage, they were at a loss as to where to turn for data - despite having an electronic health record at their disposal. They soon found that the homegrown EHR could not support a database search.
It's a common scenario in health care organizations, because many electronic records systems lack clinical data repositories or sophisticated search engines to sift through them. Yet, the urologists - after consulting physicians in the radiology department - were able to pull off a data mining workaround. That's because ...