“… The nationwide deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine is one of the largest undertakings in the history of the modern healthcare industry. The effective distribution of the vaccine requires timely, clean and actionable data to identify and ensure the most at-risk communities are first in line. However, the effective collection and integration of disparate sources of patient and clinical data remains a challenge for many healthcare organizations.”
“In Q2 2020, VA launched InterSystems VDIF EP (Veterans Data Integration and Federation Enterprise Platform) based on InterSystems HealthShare to develop longitudinal patient records, which are now available to providers within Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The InterSystems VDIF EP solution was instrumental in enabling VA to quickly and accurately identify veterans and clinicians within VA’s health delivery network who contracted the virus. InterSystems VDIF EP aggregated and normalized thousands of patient records in VA’s existing electronic medical record (EMR) systems to file a required CDC report that demonstrated the critical need for VA to be included in the first wave of the vaccine distribution.”
“’VA provides healthcare for more than nine million veterans each year, and this population has been one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic,’ said George Hou, head of solutions for the Department of Veterans Affairs at InterSystems. ‘There are currently more than 17,000 active VA COVID-19 cases, totaling nearly 130,000 cases to date. Leveraging the reports generated by InterSystems VDIF EP, we were able to quickly compile and share comprehensive, accurate COVID-19 case data with the CDC, as a prerequisite for early distribution of the vaccine at VA facilities.’”
“In addition to the work InterSystems and VA accomplished in regards to vaccine distribution, VA also leveraged InterSystems technology throughout the pandemic to assist in the deployment of resources based on the location of spikes in positive COVID-19 cases, increases in requests for tests, availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, negative pressure rooms and rooms that could easily be made negative pressure rooms, as well as current locations and availability of compassionate care physicians…” Read the full press release here.
Source: InterSystems Helps U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Ensure Early Veteran Access to COVID-19 Vaccine – December 21, 2020. InterSystems.
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