EHR Intelligence December 1, 2020
When a natural disaster strikes, interoperability and patient data exchange are essential to maintain patient care.
Through 11 months, 2020 has been a monumental year for all the wrong reasons, including a deadly pandemic and a record-breaking number of natural disasters. COVID-19 continues to spread across the country with no true end in sight, wildfires ripped through the western region, and tropical cyclones ran through the Gulf Coast.
When a natural disaster or a pandemic occurs, it is typical for the impacted area to set up pop-up hospitals for volunteer clinicians to help when hospitals are overcrowded.
With individuals arriving at these pop-up hospitals from neighboring cities or states, interoperability is crucial, but it is also tricky to attain.
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