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Specialty pharma’s next big opportunity: it’s time for patient access to adopt an open protocol

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The Institute of Medicine first advocated a shift from paper-based to electronic medical records in 1992 , yet, only 13% of U.S. healthcare facilities were found to have an EHR system fully implemented by 2004. Health systems were slow to digitise their filing cabinets full of charts and other patient data.

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Care … Amazon’s Revolutionary Move into Healthcare

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It announced a partnership with Cerner, the second largest provider of electronic medical records (EMRs) in the US, to use Amazon Web Services (AWS), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning to develop new diagnostic services, such as being able to predict congestive heart failure over a year in advance of it being seen clinically.