Electronic health records help study drug-effectiveness in Alzheimer’s disease

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Researchers have harnessed the power of electronic health records to gain insight in the potential of inflammation-controlling medications to reduce a patient’s Alzheimer’s disease risk.

Rong Xu, professor of Biomedical Informatics and director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery at Case Western Reserve University; Mark Gurney, chairman and CEO of Tetra Therapeutics; and David Kaelber, chief medical informatics officer and vice president of Health Informatics at The MetroHealth System, accessed nearly 20 years of electronic health records (1999-2018) from the IBM Watson Healthcare Explorys Cohort Discovery platform. The researchers analyzed the…

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