{"id":10948,"date":"2018-07-16T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10948"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:38:16","slug":"to-improve-treatments-researchers-want-to-hunt-for-clues-in-medical-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10948","title":{"rendered":"To Improve Treatments, Researchers Want To Hunt For Clues In Medical Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Richard Harris for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>When you go to your doctor&#8217;s office, sometimes it seems the caregivers spend more time gathering data about you than treating you as a patient.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic medical records are everywhere \u2013 annoying to doctors and intrusive to patients.<\/p>\n<p>But now researchers are looking to see if they can plow through the vast amount of data that&#8217;s gathered in those records, along with insurance billing information, to tease out the bits that could be useful in refining treatments and identifying new uses for drugs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/07\/15\/628898028\/to-improve-treatments-researchers-want-to-hunt-for-clues-in-medical-records?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=64463366&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8cpAuRo2-BMyqqGFsIJDmlqiLpgAlkipQMIJrGXi_ceQWcAODPyU2xbz8bdyo2vAgWXNBowa02UxOuMANAeFA8Tl96Lw&amp;_hsmi=64463366\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Richard Harris for NPR) When you go to your doctor&#8217;s office, sometimes it seems the caregivers spend more time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10949,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10948\/revisions\/10949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}