Who We Are: COVID-19 Digital Ambulatory Solutions

Owned by Julia Skapik
Last updated: Oct 09, 2020 by Raymonde Uy
2 min read

Introduction: COVID-19 Digital Ambulatory Solutions

We invite you to join us as part of a multidisciplinary effort addressing the COVID-19 crisis using health IT, case management and population health tools to address ambulatory care gaps in the current pandemic. Your clinical and information technology skills will bring critical front-line perspectives to work alongside health IT experts to translate ideas into actual implementations at the COVID-19 point-of-care.

This effort sprung initially from the CDC effort on Bringing Guidelines into the Digital Age, which has led to a longitudinal, multidisciplinary effort around rapid development and deployment of evidence-based clinical solutions into clinical settings using health IT tools. This group spun off three efforts around the COVID-19 crisis in the US with the goal of rapidly filling data and clinical evidence gaps in different clinical settings: ambulatory care, home and long-term facility care, and inpatient/ICU care.

These teams are open to participation to any interested parties but particularly interested in clinician and implementation experts, who bring the critical front-line perspective to the work along with HIT experts who have experience coding and translating this content to the point of care.

What does the ‘work’ entail?

  • Medical / Nurse / Informatics          Curating Value Sets / Clinical Data Model

  • IT/Engineering :                     FHIR / Software Implementations

  • Management:                                   Clinical and Operational Workflow / Documentation

  • Communications:                            Marketing / Design / KOL+Stakeholder Engagement

Get involved, stay mentally active and make a difference while gaining experience in the virtual clinical setting and implementation sciences! If you or a member of your team is interested in participating, please send an email to jskapik@nachc.com. You may share this information with other individuals who may be interested. Thank you for your interest and we are looking forward to working together with you as we strengthen our arsenal against COVID-19.

Please see our Design Brief for more on the approach: COVID-19 DAS Design Brief

Review and contribute to our Use Cases for more information on the specific tools we are working on: Use Case Planning

Our meeting agendas and minutes are available here: COVID-19 DAS Meeting Management

An example of a potential use case is listed here:

Community Health Center X has dramatically changed their practice because of the COVID-19 crisis, moving most of their visits to virtual, creating hours for a “COVID clinic” and a “non-COVID clinic”. Staff who have been diverted from their regular activities (dental assistants, for example) are being asked to staff phone screening and care management activities. The team identifies a need for guidance documentation and workflow for these phone visits to ensure the correct questions are asked and the responses are recorded, and that these data go into the record in a way that allows a case report form to be partially populated and to direct patients to the right clinic and resources and that this content is evidence-based and can be updated as research and recommendations change.