EHR Intelligence November 23, 2020
Improved patient matching is a must to develop an effective COVID-19 response plan, including contact tracing and administrating a vaccine.
Congressional leaders are probing the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) about patient matching and how it can improve the COVID-19 response.
In a letter to ONC head Don Rucker, MD, which EHRIntelligence obtained via email, Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), requested more information about what ONC is doing to improve patient matching amid the pandemic.
Contact tracing and administrating a COVID-19 vaccine are two of the most important response plans on both a state and local level.
“The success of both relies in large part on the ability of health care providers, state public health officials, pharmacists...