KevinMD January 17, 2021
Developing the COVID-19 vaccine was the first monumental milestone on a long and arduous journey to achieving the entire U.S. population’s vaccination.
One of the barriers to achieving this task is the absence of a reliable, scalable way to uniquely identify each individual before or after they receive the vaccine. Furthermore, in the absence of this unique identifier, it is extremely difficult to reliably use existing state or regional data repositories to identify and prioritize vaccination of individuals who share clinical and demographic characteristics that put them at high risk for COVID-19 morbidity or mortality.
As patients traverse the health care system, they frequently “touch” multiple organizations, and as a result, there is a significant overlap in the patient records...
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