Last week, the White House announced that it has requested health IT vendors across the US to offer their assistance in offering COVID-19 therapeutics within the Electronic Health Records Software.
What is the Cerner EHR Software Integration?
Through Cerner EMR Software integration healthcare providers will be able to easily check the availability of a drug and its location when prescribing it to patients. This will happen by integrating ASPR’s COVID-19 therapeutics locator site within the software system.
Benefits of COVID-19 therapeutics within the EHR Software
The information incorporated will be the baseline to alert physicians with relevant information about patient treatment and locations. This will eventually streamline patient access to COVID-19 oral antivirals. Cerner EMR Software will also offer its users accurate prescribing recommendations for specified treatments based on references from the Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
One of the biggest Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software vendors, Cerner aims to leverage the power of health data to make healthcare delivery cost-effective and efficient which can help the American citizens by enhancing patient outcome levels.
Cerner’s role during the COVID-19 pandemic
Since the inception of the pandemic, the Cerner EMR Software solution has played a proactive role by helping healthcare organizations and the federal government to support the tracking and treatment of COVID-19. Such as, the vendor’s robust platform supports an unrestricted ecosystem through FHIR APIs. This enables users to use an app that automates COVID-19 case reporting to public health authorities.
The crux of Cerner’s electronic case reporting solutions is AIMS, which is funded by the CDC and is a cloud-based national messaging platform. AIMS has the decision support engine for trigger codes for more than a hundred conditions.
The US and the Pandemic at the moment
Cases are continuing to rise in the United States which has confused some providers and pharmacies as to how to get the right drug. At the start of this week, the Biden government will allow pharmacies to easily order free antiviral treatment from the federal government. Calling all EHR software vendors to include information related to antivirals directly into their interfaces can boost access to COVID-19 therapeutics.
