NeHII Launches a Comprehensive COVID-19 Alerts and Reporting Solution to Support Pandemic Response Efforts
The Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII) teamed up with two national health information technology companies to launch the COVID-19 Alerts and Reporting solution to help healthcare organizations and medical professionals to prevent and manage the epidemic spread.
The comprehensive application provides numerous dashboards, reports and alerts around bed management, risk stratification, utilization, social distancing, and laboratory to support the diverse use cases. Due to the critical nature of monitoring laboratory testing, uniquely commercial laboratories and public health laboratories send results to one company (4medica®) to normalize and match to the right patient identity. The validated data is then submitted to another partner company (KPI Ninja) to analyze and share with the appropriate front-line providers, public health agencies and patients. As a result, this program puts real-time information in the hands of first responders, hospitals, health systems, medical practices, ACOs, and public health agencies that need the data insights to make informed decisions mobilizing people and facilities to care for the growing number of cases in the state. “The COVID-19 Lab Alerts and Reporting Solution augments our HIE to report accurate, knowledge-based data that informs life-saving decisions and community emergency prevention efforts at a time of unprecedented need,” said Jaime Bland, NEHII CEO. More information on this innovative work is available from the press release, solution overview or webinar.
