“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that it enhanced its National COVID-19 Report Summary website that provides a real-time look at the status of COVID-19 patients who have been tested or treated at VA facilities.”
“’The accelerating pace of VA’s response to the national emergency required VA to leverage the department’s unique national data infrastructure and informatics capabilities to create a timely, automated biosurveillance process,’ said VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. ‘The public-facing report displays all known VA COVID-19 cases that are tested or treated in VA facilities.’”
“As an integrated health care system with a common electronic health record, VA can extract and compile information in near real-time from all its facilities. Several complementary approaches are then applied to this information to identify and validate COVID-19 cases. These approaches are subject to ongoing human review by clinical experts in infectious disease, public health and critical care to validate and refine VA’s approach…”
“As of today, the relaunched site divides COVID-19 case counts into the following categories…” Read the full press release here.
Source: VA enhances National COVID-19 Reporting Summary tool – May 5, 2020. VA.
