Dr. Robin Austin

Anyway, that's what kind of then, though, I personally was like, I'm going to do something.

And I joined the Metapause Society just because this is not a space I know very well.

I'd love to know what they're doing about it from that data perspective.

Because I think, how are we documenting menopause within the electronic health record?

How are we trying to standardize our data collection around menopause signs and symptoms?

Because they are so varied.

And every provider probably does it slightly differently.

Our health care system does it slightly differently.

And so my informatics brain went into action to say, well, this is

not acceptable.

How are we supposed to get data to better improve care when we can't even really get good data?

And so I joined the Metapod Society and it was really wonderful.

society to, and I highly recommend if women need additional resources, that's a great website.

And I'll share those with your group as well.

So that's kind of what led me down this pathway.

And so I'm really, I'm very an advocate for making sure midlife women have the proper data that we have within research to be able to showcase and highlight where the gaps are and what we can then do about it.

Because I think it's really been missing from the healthcare literature for a very, very long time.

So I see Barry, you have your hand up.

Yeah, we did, some of my colleagues and I, a graduate student helped me out as well, a couple of students that we looked at what is the literature saying around, you know, they're taking, if they did a study using electronic health record data, examining menopause, how did, what data, what were they even using and how were they documenting it?

And so it was, as you can imagine, completely varied across the board, you know, different data sources, different codes that they were using.