Wall Street Journal Examines Use Of Electronic Health Records To Pull Data For Research

... The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined the "growing national effort" to comb through electronic health records to gain data for research, safety assurance and best-practice identification. The Journal profiled two intensive-care databases used for pediatrics. One database, run by Pediatrix Medical in Florida, uses a system that monitors newborns'' vital signs to feed statistics into a "massive electronic documentation system," the Journal reports... click link for more info. ...