Electronic Medical Records And Outreach Improve Osteoporosis Care, Kaiser Permanente Study Shows

Electronic medical records and outreach programs of e-mail messages, letters and phone calls to patients and their primary care providers after a bone fracture can dramatically improve the diagnosis and management of the patients’ osteoporosis, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. This is the largest study to show that electronic medical records improve the continuity of care for osteoporosis. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Bones on October 25th, 2007