Physicians Need Medical Records Not Linked To Billing, Say Researchers

The evolution of electronic health records has not kept pace with other technology used to track and visualize patient experiences, and are “[b]loated records, devoid of meaning and full of cut-and-paste content,” according to Stanford University professors and researchers in a new article. The findings come as FDA works to link claims data within the agency's Sentinel System with record data from clinical data research networks. The article, published Aug. 15 in The Journal of the American Medical Association ,...