Digital Health Surveillance Strategies for Management of Coronavirus Disease 2019

Autor: Thulasee Jose, MD, David O. Warner, MD, John C. O’Horo, MD, MPH, Steve G. Peters, MD, Rajeev Chaudhry, MBBS, MPH, Matthew J. Binnicker, PhD, Charles D. Burger, MD
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 109-117 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2542-4548
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2020.12.004
Popis: Objective: To describe the design, implementation, and utilization of electronic health record (EHR)–based digital health surveillance strategies used to manage the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and to ensure delivery of high-quality clinical care, such as case identification, remote monitoring, telemedicine services, and recruitment to clinical trials at Mayo Clinic. Methods: The design and implementation work described in this report was performed at Mayo Clinic, a large multistate integrated health care system with more than 1.5 million annual patient visits that uses the Epic EHR system. Rule-based live registries were designed in the EHR system to classify patients who currently test positive for COVID-19, patients who test positive but have recovered from COVID-19, patients who are thought to have COVID-19 but do not yet meet clinical diagnostic criteria, patients who test negative for COVID-19, and patients who exceed a risk score for serious complications from COVID-19. Results: By use of registries, custom dashboards and operational reports were developed to provide a daily high-level summary for clinical practice use and up-to-date information to manage individual patients affected by COVID-19, including support of case identification, contact isolation, and other care management tasks. Conclusion: We developed and implemented a systematic approach to the use of EHR patient registries to manage the COVID-19 pandemic that proved feasible and useful in a large multistate group clinical practice. The key to harnessing the potential of digital surveillance tools to promote patient-centered care during the COVID-19 pandemic was to use the registry data, reports, and dashboards as informatics tools to inform decision-making.
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