Claim: EHRs can reduce hip fractures
November 30, 2009 by Carol Katarsky
Filed under: EMR & EHR - Electronic Health Records, Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Technology News, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Filed under: EMR & EHR - Electronic Health Records, Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Technology News, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
One hospital system claims its electronic health records program is able to reduce hip fractures by 25%.
That’s the word from Kaiser Permanente. The organization plans to use the HealthConnect EHR database to track patients’ osteoporosis-related medications, bone density and other metrics.
A recent Kaiser study, published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, showed that aggressively managing at-risk patients in this manner could reduce their rate of hip fractures by 25%.
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