Kaiser’s expanding informatics department is tasked with examining patient records as well as medical studies to make evidence-based recommendations to clinicians. A notable example is the department’s discovery that patients who took Vioxx were more likely to experience serious cardiac complications.
The massive amount of data analyzed at Kaiser is increasingly useful in predictive analytics, reports The Wall Street Journal. According to Dr. Mattison, because of Kaiser’s large data sets and advances analytic abilities, the organization can now predict an outbreak about two weeks before the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
“That is profound,” he says, according to the report.
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