Dive Brief:
- Practice Fusion, a cloud-based electronic health record platform for doctors and patients, announced two new EHR initiatives this week.
- The first is a Population Health Management program, sponsored by AstraZeneca, that is designed to help improve care for asthma and COPD patients by offering clinical decision supports at the point of care.
- The second is an integration with ePatientFinder for clinical trial recruitment through the Practice Fusion platform, which has over 50 million patient visits a year.
Dive Insight:
The PHM program identifies patients whose current asthma or COPD care does not meet evidence-based clinical guidelines, and then alerts physicians at the point of care via patient charts within the EHR platform. The alerts are based on clinical guidelines from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.
Through integration with the Practice Fusion platform, ePatientFinder will enable practitioners to quickly learn about and connect their eligible patients to clinical trial opportunities. “Until now, patients could only hope that they might hear or see an advertisement to make them aware of clinical trial options,” Tom Dorsett, CEO of ePatientFinder said in a statement. “Now they will learn through their trusted physician.”
