Use of clinical data to augment healthcare worker contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic

ConclusionAutomated methods to screen HCWs for potential exposure to patients with COVID-19 using clinical event data from the EHR are likely to improve epidemiologic surveillance by contact tracing programs and represent a viable and readily available strategy which should be considered by other institutions.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research