EHR Intelligence June 3, 2021
Public health organizations have received over 8 million electronic case reports related to COVID-19 due to EHR integration of a health IT solution.
In the midst of COVID-19, EHR developers have rapidly integrated an automated electronic case reporting solution into their products to promote public health efforts, according to an ONC blog post.
CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories created the app, eCR Now, to respond to the growing need for real-time data exchange related to COVID-19’s spread through the country.
“To mitigate and recover from widespread communicable disease, such as COVID-19, government and public health officials need a detailed view of where cases are growing across the country and which patient populations are most affected,” authors Elisabeth...