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As organizations reopen, leaders must be willing to prioritize based on where the organization is today – not where it was before Covid-19, said our CIO panelists in a recent webinar. “You have to look at things based on the new normal.”
Testing individuals isn’t enough to stop the spread of Covid-19; it’s going to take centralized programs with interface engines, says Chuck Podesta, who talks about UConn Health’s collaboration with Jackson Labs and Epic.
For UConn Health, the opportunity to leverage its interface with Jackson Laboratories – and its partnership with Epic – to help lead the initiative to deploy statewide Covid-19 testing was too good to pass up, says interim CIO Chuck Podesta in this podcast interview.
Of the myriad questions surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19, the one that seems so simple — how do you know if a patient has the virus — is perhaps the most complex, says Dirk Stanley, MD, who describes the challenges facing EHR users.
The key to developing solid clinical workflows and provider communication and education strategies is to understand the challenges – especially when it comes to signal-to-noise ratios, says Dirk Stanley, MD.
