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DENVER, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Electronic records linked to health experts can help cardiac patients stay healthier, U.S. researchers say.
The Kaiser Permanente study, published in The American Journal of Managed Care, finds a program linking coronary artery disease patients and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists with an electronic health record helps keep patients healthier and cuts cardiac deaths by 73 percent.
The two-year randomized trial of 421 patients also finds patients receiving electronic reminder letters keep their lipid and blood pressure levels at controlled, healthy levels.
"Because lack of adherence to medications and failure to maintain treatment goals are so high among heart disease patients, we wanted to find out what would happen to the patients after they were discharged from the program but remained in contact with the health care system through our electronic health record," study lead author Kari L. Olson of Kaiser Permanente Colorado's Cardiac Risk Reduction program in Denver says in a statement.
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