EHRs

Health systems around the nation are using EHR data to gain valuable insights into treating COVID-19 patients and develop predictive models about what their organization will need to combat the pandemic in the future.

Mercy Health maintains it terminated a nurse at its Hackley Hospital in Muskegon, Mich., for inappropriately viewing medical records of several patients, according to a local ABC affiliate.

Dozens of hospitals including University of Michigan and Stanford (Calif.) University are using a repurposed artificial intelligence tool developed by Epic to help identify risk levels of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, STAT reports. 

The COVID-19 pandemic will have a long-lasting effect on the healthcare industry, with new potential for digital health initiatives and data-sharing to help patients and public health surveillance, according to Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, HHS on April 21 implemented enforcement discretion of its final interoperability rules.

As National Health Service hospitals in the U.K. prepare to expand care to an increasing amount of COVID-19 patients, several hospitals have ramped up their IT hardware and infrastructure, according to Dr. Anna Bayes, Allscripts UK medical director.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense rolled out a joint health information exchange, allowing the agencies to securely access and share patients' medical record data with participating community healthcare partners.

NYC Health + Hospitals and the New York Department of Health teamed up with Epic earlier this month to launch an EMR system across its 1,000-bed Javits Center field hospital for COVID-19 patients. 

Newark, N.J-based University Hospital and Epic developed an EHR system for the state's 250-bed field hospital at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, according to an April 14 news release. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic created an EHR tool that alerts staff members who may have been exposed to another employee or patient who has tested positive for COVID-19, according to local news affiliate KTTC.