ICON announced it is working with Practice Fusion to leverage active patient data in support of health research.
Practice Fusion is a cloud-based ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) platform. These connected partners utilize the Practice Fusion platform to help coordinate care, and help develop innovative programs to improve outcomes, reduce costs and enhance the patient experience.
“The collaboration between ICON and Practice Fusion explores innovative uses of data collected directly through the Practice Fusion platform to facilitate health research. Focus areas for potential collaboration include: the ability to rapidly develop ‘Real-world’ Registries; the use of the EHR platform to streamline data collection for late phase studies and post-market research programs; as well as the real time identification of ‘active’ patients for engagement in health research programs”, commented Ramita Tandon, EVP ICON Commercialization and Outcomes.
Working with “Real” patient data, connected healthcare providers, and data collected directly through an EHR system represents an order of magnitude improvement over second-hand sources that the FDA has cited as filled with discrepancies and which is not timely.
“The use of EHR systems offers a significant differentiator of second-hand data resources for more efficient retrospective and hybrid studies in addition to selection of sites and patient recruitment” continued Ramita Tandon, EVP ICON Commercialization and Outcomes.