An application to support COVID-19 occupational health and patient tracking at a Veterans Affairs medical center
| Autor: | Vinh T. Nguyen, Michael A Parenteau, Feng-Chi Sung, Judith Strymish, Nathanael Fillmore, Jane A. Driver, Theodore C. Feldman, Robert S Sprague, Steven J Bergstrom, Stewart Evans, Robert B. Hall, Robert Zwolinski, Stephen J. Miller, Svitlana Dipietro, Mary Brophy, Jennifer La, Sergey Goryachev, David J. Thornton, Nhan Do, Anahit Aleksanyan, Paul Corcoran, Danne C. Elbers, Benjamin Colonna, Nicholas Link |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Patient Identification Systems
Infectious Disease Transmission Patient-to-Professional AcademicSubjects/SCI01060 Computer science Hospitals Veterans Patient Tracking Data management Health Personnel Pneumonia Viral Health Informatics Workforce management Occupational safety and health Disease Outbreaks Workflow Health care medicine Humans Veterans Affairs Pandemics Occupational Health AcademicSubjects/MED00580 Data Management business.industry COVID-19 medicine.disease United States Systems Integration Informatics Medical emergency AcademicSubjects/SCI01530 business Coronavirus Infections Corrigendum Software Boston |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association |
| ISSN: | 1527-974X |
| Popis: | Objective Reducing risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection among healthcare personnel requires a robust occupational health response involving multiple disciplines. We describe a flexible informatics solution to enable such coordination, and we make it available as open-source software. Materials and Methods We developed a stand-alone application that integrates data from several sources, including electronic health record data and data captured outside the electronic health record. Results The application facilitates workflows from different hospital departments, including Occupational Health and Infection Control, and has been used extensively. As of June 2020, 4629 employees and 7768 patients and have been added for tracking by the application, and the application has been accessed over 46 000 times. Discussion Data captured by the application provides both a historical and real-time view into the operational impact of COVID-19 within the hospital, enabling aggregate and patient-level reporting to support identification of new cases, contact tracing, outbreak investigations, and employee workforce management. Conclusions We have developed an open-source application that facilitates communication and workflow across multiple disciplines to manage hospital employees impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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