Once in a while, electronic health records actually do live up to some of the hype rather than cause frustration among clinicians. This week saw one such example of EHRs and analytics providing population health services in near-real time, in this case, to address the Zika virus.
With fears of Zika spreading, well, virally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week, for the first time ever, issued a travel advisory about a location in the continental United States. Monday, the CDC warned pregnant women, those hoping to get pregnant and their partners living in or traveling to the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami to get tested and take precautions.
Within a few hours of that advisory coming out, health IT cloud service providerathenahealth went to work, examining records across its network to find pregnant and sexually active women of reproductive age in Wynwood who had not had a Zika test. “It was the next day that we published alerts,” said Dr. Brian Anderson, senior manager of clinical effectiveness for Watertown, Massachusetts-based athenahealth. For the full article click here
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