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CHAPTER ELEVEN

KP HEALTHCONNECT AND THE ARCHIMEDES MODEL

A Step into the Future of Health Care

By David M. Eddy, MD, PhD

Chapter Summary

This chapter describes how linking an electronic health record such as KP HealthConnect to a powerful new physiology-based, clinically accurate, computerized simulation model known as the Archimedes Model, can improve the quality and efficiency of health care. The Archimedes Model, developed by the author and his colleague Len Schlessinger and sponsored by Kaiser Permanente, provides a means of simulating clinical trials that are impractical to conduct in the real world, and evaluating a variety of programs ...

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