Health Check-Based Preventive Care: the Global Implications of a European Study

Oh, absolutely. If we’re really going to understand what works, we do have to understand on a community-wide level what works. And you need an EMR to capture the data; then you need people willing to capture and analyze data. But without those systems, you can never do that. And we have to be both granular and broad, in order to really find out what we need to know.

What would your advice be to CIOs and CMIOs around all of this?

The way to facilitate this is to show people its utility. The idea is to create things like case studies or practical outcomes when we do that. And if you show people what you can do with the data, people will be more willing to participate. And the next stage is to get to the analyses. But you have to add utility to it.

Is there anything else you’d like to add?

I think we do have the tools to do this now. There are certainly the electronic medical records and the analytics tools. They’re just beginning to see sophisticated mathematical models, vis-à-vis Archimedes, that are extremely well-validated, that can help us to really improve healthcare.