Developing Digital Researchers: Introducing Trainees to the Role of the Electronic Health Record, Data Science, and Informatics in Scientific Inquiry.
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The healthcare industry has seen a boom in the digitalization of clinical care through the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Despite the expected benefits of the EHR, effect on health care outcomes have not been robust. In order to take advantage of what technology can offer medicine there is a need for physicians to engage in the fields data science and clinical informatics to help merge the digital world with the clinical in a meaningful way.