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Extracting accurate COVID data from scanned forms

by Paul Govern Clinical teams at Vanderbilt University Medical Center use electronic forms for patient intake, but for various operational reasons, teams devoted to COVID outpatient intake used paper assessment forms. The forms, each with 141 fields, were scanned into the electronic health record upon completion. While these files served clinical documentation purposes, they might…

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HCQ doesn’t protect health workers from COVID: study

  by Bill Snyder Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) did not significantly reduce the incidence of COVID-19 among health care workers who participated in a national study that included Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Originally developed to treat malaria,…