Rapid response to COVID-19: Health informatics support for outbreak management in an academic health system

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2020, Pages 853-859

  Reeves, J Jeffery ^a   Hollandsworth, Hannah M ^a   Torriani, Francesca J ^b   Taplitz, Randy ^b   Abeles, Shira ^b   Tai Seale, Ming ^c   Millen, Marlene ^b   Clay, Brian J ^b   Longhurst, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical informatics; coronavirus; electronic health record; pandemic; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LABORATORY TEST; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PANDEMIC; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; SCREENING TEST; STANDARDIZATION; TEAMWORK; TELEMEDICINE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BETACORONAVIRUS; CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BETACORONAVIRUS; CALIFORNIA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PANDEMICS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85086052184     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa037     Document Type: Article

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