Informatics
for
pandemics

March 23, 2020 -- You thought electronic health records were a technical detail, an obscure tool, an esoteric subspecialty on the periphery of modern health care? Think again.

As Rapid Response to COVID-19:Health Informatics Support for Outbreak Management in an Academic Health System (get it here if that link is broken) from UCSD Health demonstrates, the EHR is central to confronting the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is an essential tool to:

  • Support management of patients in a standardized way
  • Enable immediate widespread distribution of information
  • Track transmission in real-time
  • Provide virtual venues for meetings and day-to-day operations
  • Manage the inventory and distribution of essential supplies
  • Offer telemedicine visits for patients

Go nurses. Go nursing informatics!

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