NEJM May 10, 2022
Jason Arora, MD, MPH, MA, Jessica L. Mega, MD, MPH, Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, and William Stadtlander, MBA, MSc

A collaboration involving public health systems and commercial health care organizations to develop a scalable connected software platform to collect and assess patient information in a timely manner — outside the health system — creates opportunities to inform a public health response to Covid-19 or other pressing needs.

Summary

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, challenges emerged that pointed to the need for connecting diagnostic, clinical, and demographic data at scale to support real-time monitoring and decision-making by public health agencies. Driven by this urgent need, a number of public and private entities worked to deploy data programs across the United States to address the information fragmentation...

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