“The Defense Health Agency created a clearinghouse for information about COVID-19 patients’ medical and service histories, journeys with the disease, and clinical outcomes to help it improve treatment quality and keep Defense Department guidance for COVID-19 care current, DHA Director Army Lt. Gen. Ronald J. Place told Air Force Magazine in an exclusive interview on Aug. 20.”
“’It’s a way of tracking all of those different things so that we can both provide best care to the patients that we do have, but using continuous process improvement with the data within the system to continuously update the guidance that we give to the field on best modalities on how we care for our patients,’ Place said.”
“The registry looks at patients in two ways.”
“First, it aims to understand their personal and medical histories leading up to their battles with COVID-19, Place said. This includes factors such as age, sex, medical issues that run in the families, where they serve within the Defense Department, deployments (and things troops might’ve been exposed to while overseas), current medical problems and medications, and their history of surgeries.”
“Next, the registry aims to understand what actually happened to the patient…” Read the full article here.
Source: Defense Health Agency Creates COVID-19 Registry to Improve Care Quality – By Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory, August 25, 2020. Air Force Magazine.
