Unlocking the Potential of Our Electronic Health Record Data with Artificial Intelligence - The Medical Care Blog

Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 incentivized the adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs), EHRs have become ubiquitous in the health care industry. Recent federal reports show about 84% adoption in hospitals and about 86% adoption in office-based practices. Patient information that was once captured on paper is now being regularly recorded and stored in EHRs, creating new opportunities for analyzing and drawing insights from these increasingly rich data sets. While EHRs can support easier access to and sharing of information by individual providers and patients, larger efforts (e.g. Why is EHR data complex?