Verana Health Research on Missing Data for Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Verana Health®—a digital health company elevating quality in real-world data—today announced its recent ophthalmic research has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). The study demonstrates how de-identified real-world data (RWD) from electronic health records (EHRs) in medical registries can allow for a deeper understanding of data trends, patterns, or gaps by helping to fill in the missing pieces and providing deeper context.
- SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Verana Health ®—a digital health company elevating quality in real-world data—today announced its recent ophthalmic research has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
- Conducted by a team of Verana Health researchers, the study shows a non-random association between missing EHR data regarding the severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in de-identified patients and specific demographic, clinical, and practice-level characteristics.
- Verana Health elevates data quality, which requires understanding how data is recorded by clinicians in the real world, how diagnosis codes are used to capture disease severity, and completeness of the information.
- This finding supports the assessment that clinical encounters with unspecified disease severity are associated with less severe DR severity.