EHR Intelligence November 13, 2020
If Congress works to integrate the USPS address standardization tool, patient matching could increase up to 3 percent and COVID-19 contact tracing could improve.
The Pew Charitable Trusts penned a letter to Congress about the importance of patient matching and how utilizing the US Postal Service (USPS) address standardization tool could boost COVID-19 contact tracing and increase the impact of a future vaccine rollout.
Congress has made major investments into an effective COVID-19 response, highlighted by a distribution of over $2.5 trillion to various agencies, states, and drug manufacturers, the letter states.
“Despite these extraordinary measures, the future effectiveness of these investments remain contingent on two key factors—contact tracing and the deployment of a vaccine once one has been developed,”...
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