(Source: Stanford School of Medicine) As Shah put it: 'What if you press the Green Button and nothing happens?' If you can't access enough records of similar patients to begin with, you're out of luck. Assembling that huge data pool gets easier if numerous institutions can be coaxed into contributing to it. The numbers are certainly there: Stanford Health Care alone has close to 2 million patient EMRs. Kaiser Permanente, which has been using EMRs for a decade or more, has 9 million, and the University of California health system has 14 million. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has 20 to 25 years' worth of longitudinal data on many millions of veterans. The key lies in integrating...
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