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MARCH 6, 2018

In Data-Driven Health Care Milieu, Context Can Be Lost

By Chase Doyle

Huntington Beach, Calif.—Health care providers have access to more data than ever, but the challenge is how to draw meaningful conclusions from this information to deliver better care.

According to Julian M. Goldman, MD, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and medical director of Partners HealthCare Systems Biomedical Engineering, all in Boston, this means refining the electronic medical record (EMR) to limit spurious data