Epic’s Johnston Thayer Discusses New Real-World Data Platform

Epic’s director of clinical informatics and population health Johnston Thayer, MBA, RN, sat down with Healthcare Innovation to talk about the company’s new real-world data (RWD) tool. Best Care, as the platform is called, will pull data from Epic’s large electronic health record (EHR) database to help clinicians make healthcare decisions.

According to David Raths, “Thayer, who has experience as an emergency room nurse, said he is interested in the use of genomics, machine learning, and population health tools to transform care delivery. He said health systems are getting more sophisticated in their use of population health tools that can overlay the data to see, for instance, how many diabetic patients are overdue for a foot exam or for a regular screening. Previously, identifying those patients would have taken a long time combing through all of your chart. Using tools in Epic, he said, you’re able to automatically identify all of those patients, automate that follow-up, and make sure that patients are getting in for those visits. “There’s a whole set of tools for doing that type of work across all different types of populations,” he said.”

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(Source: Healhcare innovation, October 31^st, 2022)