Clinical informatics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned and implications for emergency department and inpatient operations.
In response to a pandemic, hospital leaders can use clinical informatics to aid clinical decision making, virtualizing medical care, coordinating communication, and defining workflow and compliance. Clinical informatics procedures need to be implemented nimbly, with governance measures in place to properly oversee and guide novel patient care pathways, diagnostic and treatment workflows, and provider education and communication. The authors' experience recommends (1) creating flexible order sets that adapt to evolving [...]
Author(s): Hsu, Hanson, Greenwald, Peter W, Laghezza, Matthew R, Steel, Peter, Trepp, Richard, Sharma, Rahul
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa311