Statistical modeling enables prediction of health outcomes for patients with sparse histories

http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/new-statistical-model-lets-patients-past-forecast-future-ailments

This technology can serve as an interim bridge between today's sparse manual medical history paradigm and tomorrow's rich medical history paradigm..the rich model enabled by the introduction of EMR technology that enables documentation of current medical conditions and procedures and encourages the development of more detailed histories.

Future medical paradigms probably will join detailed individual histories with statistical models of disease based on multiple histories combined tp preduct health futures with a significant degree of accuracy.