EHR Intelligence April 23, 2021
Regenstrief researchers developed an emergency EHR system within two weeks to help Indianapolis first responders during COVID-19.
To aid Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services (IEMS) with an influx of COVID-19 patients, researchers from Regenstrief Institute utilized a global open-source EHR, OpenMRS, to create an emergency EHR system.
In less than two weeks, the researchers developed the emergency EHR system to register patients, collect patient data, and forward patient data to the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE).
When COVID-19 began to spread throughout Indiana, IEMS leaders realized a significant gap between Indianapolis health system capacity and its health IT system to support the overburdened healthcare system, Regenstrief said.
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