HIT Infrastructure June 4, 2020
Nearly 60 institutions are invited to partner with HHS to support the analysis of electronic health records from COVID-19 patients on a secure cloud-based database.
Clinicians, informatics, and other biomedical researchers will partner with HHS to leverage medical records and turn patient data into effective COVID-19 treatments through a more secure cloud-based database, according to a recent press release.
Through the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, the institutions affiliated with the National Institutes of Health-supported Clinical and Translational Science Award Program will support the development of coronavirus treatments through extensive analysis of electronic health records (EHR), which could lessen or end the global pandemic.
Through machine learning and accelerated statistical analyses, the database will predict patient responses to antiviral or anti-inflammatory...