One positive outcome in response to the pandemic has been increased funding allocated to health centers to allow for boosting their EHR systems and all around bettering the healthcare they can provide. Last week, several health IT vendors including Epic Systems and Cerner, announced the formation of the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI). This initiative would help to digitalize vaccination records, allowing patients and organizations to access an individuals records faster. This would enable better tracking of these records and expedite the ability to present vaccination history, hopefully enabling quicker return to normalcy for our society. Read More Here 

In the wake of 2020, a year filled with various natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry learned that one thing remained true: Interoperability is paramount. With pop up health care facilities and remote patient care becoming a new normal in 2020, the ability for EHR’s to disperse patient information readily became crucial to providing the best and most accurate level of care. As we begin 2021 still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is apparent that optimizing these systems is more important than ever to get providers the information they are looking for as quickly as possible so that they can continue to do their job- caring for people and saving lives. Read More Here

With priority high-risk groups already receiving the initial doses of the COVID-19 Vaccine, the big question is figuring out who gets to go next. With an advisory board in place, but limited information being dispersed, it is hard to tell who is next in line after health care workers and nursing home patients and staff. But how do we prioritize who receives the next phase of vaccines?

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