EHR Intelligence November 5, 2020
Although health IT developers and public health systems were caught off guard by COVID-19, both should be ready for the next wave or a future pandemic.
Developing, implementing, and assessing a plan for EHR systems and public health information systems require a boost in health IT, governance, and overall strategy, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
COVID-19 response efforts have included the collection and analysis of individual and community EHR data from healthcare organizations, public health departments, and socioeconomic indicators. But those resources haven’t been deployed the same way in all healthcare organizations, the researchers stated.
“The current state of COVID-19 data reflects a patchwork of uncoordinated, temporary fixes to a...
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