EHR Intelligence December 21, 2020
Christopher Jason

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will utilize its interoperability platform to identify positive COVID-19 patients and later deploy the COVID-19 vaccine to those in need from the VA.

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced it is leveraging its Veterans Data Integration and Federation Enterprise Platform (VDIF EP) to help deploy the COVID-19 vaccine to veterans, VA clinicians, and other VA individuals.

Intersystems HealthShare will help identify the 130,000 VA individuals who tested positive for the virus and will have early access to the vaccine.

This month, the FDA authorized the deployment of two COVID-19 vaccines, one by Pfizer-BioNTech and one from Moderna, for people across the country.

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Topics: Biotechnology, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Pharma, Pharma / Biotech, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology, VA / DoD
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