12-30-2020, 09:08 PM
(12-30-2020, 07:24 PM)chrisk Wrote: Do you think the state has a working data base set up yet to keep track of the massive volumes of residents who will be vaccinated? Won’t they need all sorts of interfaces with lots of EMRs and provisions for manual tracking?My guess is probably not. Even if they do, do all the people giving immunizations know what they have to do in order to update it properly? This actually isn't all that hard to do. If it were a company, it would be simple, although there would be "roll-out" issues that should have been solved in November. It is not as if the State didn't know this would be required way back in the summer.
I could be (gasp!) wrong, but for some reason I doubt the IT group that couldn't count COVID-19 tests correctly is going to roll out a de novo vaccine tracking system without serious glitches. It may be they are relying on all individual's medical records being updated by their primary care doctor/provider. That actually might work if all vaccines were given that way, but since they mostly will not be in this case I expect that approach isn't viable. In addition, such records are not in general available to the State. Who knows what the plan is? If anybody here does, speak up please!