The pediatrician who brought the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to public attention used a Wisconsin tool to do so: Epic Systems’ electronic medical records.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, of Hurley Medical Center in Flint, analyzed confidential data from blood tests on children stored in software designed by Verona-based Epic Systems Corp.
She and her colleagues discovered that the percentage of Flint children with unsafe levels of lead in their blood doubled — and nearly tripled in the inner city — after the city, under state management, switched its water supply in April 2014.
“If we did not have Epic, if we did not have (electronic medical records), if we were still on paper, it would have taken forever to get these results,” Hanna-Attisha said.
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