Phoenix Children’s makes big gains with homegrown data warehouse and apps

Hospitals and health systems have worked hard over the past decade-plus to roll out and optimize electronic health records. But EHRs by themselves have not automatically resulted in widespread improvements in clinical care and patient outcomes.

THE PROBLEM

“During the early phase of EHR implementation, when a large majority of providers first started converting from paper to electronic, we were promised meaningful benefits that simply did not…