Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston have developed an advanced search tool designed to help radiologists and other physicians extract useful data from a patient's electronic medical record (EMR), according to the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (2010, Vol. 7:8, pp. 625-633).
The Queriable Patient Inference Dossier (QPID) is a search engine that serves as an adjunct to the hospital's EMR system. It was developed separately from the EMR system and operates in a read-only fashion in relation to it.
Lead study author Michael Zalis, MD, said QPID is not a source of new EMR data, but serves as a method to extract useful patterns of EMR information from the separately curated clinical data repositories at the facility. QPID currently serves 500 registered users at MGH and posts 7,000 to 10,000 pages of medical record data daily.
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