Given that EHRs are relatively new in most practices and that clinical data are inherently more complex than other fields that have been altered by the digital revolution, these proposed benefits have yet to be realized.3 The results reported by Shen et al4 in this issue of Ophthalmology (see http://www.aaojournal.org/
article/S0161-6420(15)00673-9/abstract) represent an early glimpse of just how ophthalmology may ultimately benefit from “big data.”