A group of South Carolina hospitals and universities has begun using a statewide database containing records on 2.3 million patients with the goal of improving care delivery across the state, according to a report in The State.
The Clinical Data Warehouse aims to allow researchers and providers to find patterns in the records that will help identify best practices and treatments to be able to provide better care for all patients.
“You cannot make a very good clinical decision [based] on 10 patients, but you can for sure do that with 100,000 patients,” said Health Sciences CEO Jay Moskowitz in the report.
The large amount of data should help significantly reduce the amount of time it takes new treatment plans to be finalized, standardized and used with patients in the state, said Mr. Moskowitz. Findings will be shared with all participating hospitals and universities.
The database is hosted by Clemson (S. C.) University and operated by Health Sciences South Carolina in Columbia. Money for the $15 million project came from a grant from Duke University.
Participating hospitals and health systems include Palmetto Health (Columbia), Greenville (S. C.) Health System and MUSC Health (Charleston). They will soon be joined by Spartanburg (S. C.) Regional Healthcare System, AnMed Health in Anderson, Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood and McLeod Health in Florence.
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