BLOOMINGTON, MN – A HealthPartners Research Foundation team has received a National Institutes of Health research grant to develop and implement an electronic health record-based clinical decision support system to help reduce patients' risk of heart attack or stroke.
The team, which is led by Patrick O'Connor, MD, senior clinical investigator at HealthPartners Research Foundation, was awarded $3.7 million to conduct the five-year study, "Prioritized Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk."
"This is the next generation of personalizing care with decision support that's meaningful to care providers and patients," said O'Connor, who is also an assistant medical director at HealthPartners Medical Group. "HealthPartners Medical Group physicians and clinics have been pioneers in this area and this new project will likely lead to further improvements in care for thousands of patients."
The team, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, will engineer a point-of-care system that identifies and prioritizes evidence-based treatment options for patients at moderate to high risk for a heart attack or stroke within 10 years. With HealthPartners physicians, they will test its effect on risk in a randomized trial that includes 18 primary care clinics, 60 primary care physicians and 18,000 patients.
If successful, this approach will reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke for about 35 percent of adults in the United States and maximize the clinical return on investment for electronic health record systems. It could also be a model for using electronic health record technology to deliver personalized medicine in primary care settings.
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