How Shared Patient Information is Transforming Healthcare

How Shared Patient Information is Transforming Healthcare

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the sharing of patient information, also known as Shared Patient Information, and Real-World Data, plays an important role in healthcare. Real-World Data is an umbrella term for various types of data derived from sources outside of conventional randomized controlled trials. 

Shared Patient Information refers to the collection and exchange of real-world medical data from various sources, including electronic health records (EHRs), insurance claims, disease registries, surveys, and clinical trials. This data allows healthcare providers to make more informed decisions, identify trends, and develop personalized treatment plans tailored to individual patients. 

Most clinical trials are controlled with specific inclusion and exclusion of criteria, and are investigated through narrowly-defined patient populations. Real world data comes from sources that are outside of controlled clinical environments, and is usually more representative of a wider range of patients. Both sets of data compliment each other in understanding a treatment or a diagnosis. 

Doctors can improve their delivery of care through shared patient information by gaining a deeper understanding of patients, treatment plans, and adverse events. Shared patient information is also analysed by government bodies to enhance public health initiatives and provide valuable insights into disease patterns and healthcare disparities. Pharmaceutical companies utilise this data as well to learn how their medicines are being used, how patients respond to them, and how much their drugs should cost.

Real World Data can assist in drug development, and medical device manufacturing. Real World Data gives valuable information about the effectiveness of a treatment across a diverse population that could be excluded from clinical trials. Working alongside clinical trials data, Real World Data can provide a more full picture to the patient on how a treatment may unfold outside of clinical theory.

You can find Shared Patient Information on the Human Health Project’s website, collected from real patients all over the world. The information includes a wide range of treatments, including clinical and natural approaches, for a variety of conditions. It also includes people’s diets, exercise plans, and lifestyle changes for a more whole-body approach to treatment, along with providing access to peer-to-peer information and support. 

Written by Emily Linehan.