EMRs, as they're called, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine in the 21st century, including putting patients a few clicks away from personal health records once locked up in clinic and hospital file cabinets.Īt the center of this transformation is Epic Systems Corp., the purveyor of the Cleveland Clinic's records system.
The rapid response, a subsequent research study found, owed to breakthrough advances in electronic medical records systems.Įlectronic medical records, which allow for the easy manipulation of patient information and the convenient sharing of results, represent an epochal advance over the bulky paper files of the past. Within 22 hours, letters were in the mail explaining to patients what the heck had happened. Within an hour, the Ohio institution pulled Vioxx from its medication stocks within seven hours, it had deactivated all prescriptions and notified the doctors. They tapped into their electronic medical records system, identified 11,699 patients receiving Vioxx and 842 doctors who had prescribed it. The problem? There was newly revealed evidence that Vioxx users were keeling over with heart attacks and strokes.Īt the Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation's largest private medical centers, administrators sprang into action. was withdrawing Vioxx, a hugely popular painkiller prescribed to more than two million people.
Food and Drug Administration stunned the American medical system.
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