Building a dashboard to inform policy and clinical practice using the Irish epilepsy electronic patient record: Towards a learning health system

Electronic patient records are useful for storing and sharing patient data between clinicians and represent data repositories that can be leveraged to enhance healthcare policy and clinical care. Ireland lacks in leveraging electronic patient resources. The current study produced a prototype analysis tool using electronic patient records from a national epilepsy center. The efficacy of this prototype dashboard is exemplified through a demonstrative analysis that identifies females of childbearing age (16-45 years) currently taking sodium valproate. The results and reporting of the current study are useful as means to drive stakeholder engagement for developing more advanced systems to improve epilepsy care.