Speakers
Paul E. Drawz, MD, MHS, MS
Associate Professor
Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension
University of Minnesota
Tyler N.A. Winkelman, MD, MSc
Co-Director, Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab
Associate Director, Virtual Data Warehouse
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute
Topic
Minnesota EHR Consortium COVID-19 Project: A Statewide Collaboration to Inform Vaccine Equity
Keywords
COVID-19; Electronic health records (EHRs); Data analysis; Research consortium; Healthcare systems; Population health; Distributed data network; Vaccine equity
Key Points
- The EHR Consortium’s COVID-19 vaccine project aims to inform policy and practice through data-driven collaboration among members of Minnesota’s health care community.
- The collaborative network can monitor population-level health metrics and analyze changes over time using aggregations of data to inform public health policy. Sources of data include EHRs, census data, state-wide electronic immunization records, and population data.
- The COVID-19 vaccine dashboard is updated weekly and provides data at the ZIP level by age categories and race/ethnicity.
- Minnesotans who have received a COVID-19 vaccine (any source) and had a visit at a consortium site in the last 10 years (~90 percent of the state population) are reflected in the dashboard.
Discussion Themes
How were you able to convene this consortium during a pandemic year?
Was your hashing algorithm home-grown or did you have an outside partner?
In the future, this infrastructure will be expanded to incorporate smaller health systems and additional content expertise around comorbidities, disease prevalence, and identification of disparities in near real-time.
Read more about the MN EHR Consortium at Hennepin Healthcare and the University of Minnesota Clinical & Translational Science Institute.
Tags
#pctGR, @Collaboratory1