Health IT—including electronic health records (EHRs)—plays a key role in supporting immunizations driven by both routine care and by public health crises. This role includes:
- Ensuring the right patient receives the right vaccination at the right time, through effective patient identification, review of the patient’s vaccination history and easy access to clinical guidelines that increase understanding of what vaccines and doses are needed
- Generating population-level reports to identify gaps in vaccination coverage to support improvements, as well as reporting of adverse events
- Facilitating the exchange of information among healthcare providers—through their EHRs—and immunization registries (often referred to as IISs)to help ensure that both clinicians and public health agencies have the information they need to track vaccination coverage and reduce vaccine-preventable disease
- Enabling patients to have easy access to their immunization information.
- Advancing effective health IT solutions that support immunization requires collaboration among stakeholders across the entire spectrum, including healthcare providers, EHR developers, health information exchanges (HIEs), IISs and other public health leaders.
Read more: https://www.himss.org/news/health-it-improves-immunization-time-covid-19
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