title: The power of capturing and using information at the point of care.
abstract: Historically, the process of scientific discovery and the process of clinical delivery have been poorly integrated. As a result of the Decade of Health Information Technology (2004-2014), many of the former barriers to capturing, processing, and retrieving medical information at the point of care have been surmounted. This change has the potential to both transform how new medical discoveries are made and how evidence-based medicine is put into practice. To illustrate the impact of this ongoing change, several examples are provided of institutions which have innovatively used information at the point of care.
authors.affiliation: Cambridge Innovation Research, 3112 Main Campus Drive, Lexington, MA 02421, United States. Electronic address: whgruber@gmail.com.
authors.forename: William H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Gruber
authors.affiliation: Payer+Provider Syndicate, 111 Beach St. Ste. 4E, Boston, MA 02111, United States. Electronic address: powell@payerprovider.com.
authors.forename: Adam C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Powell
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446, United States. Electronic address: jtorous@bidmc.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: John B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Torous
mesh_terms: D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs / Q000458:organization & administration
keywords: Analytics; Evidence-based medicine; Health IT; Healthcare delivery; Scientific discovery