I am leading several efforts helping multiple state HIEs (health information exchanges) and hospital associations gather COVID-related data which they can't obtain any other way due to the US's terribly disjointed healthcare system. The data we are providing to the various states is pretty depressing.
We are also getting close to standing up a solution that allows Washington State and NY state and others to search for patients that took COVID tests but for whom they only have partial demographics. The solution will allow the states to find hospital visit history and full addresses.
Are you saying you might be interested to help? Huh, that is interesting - it hadn't occurred to me that other's would be interesting in assisting. I don't think we'd be able to work out the regulatory issues since we are dealing with PHI, which requires a bunch of red tape.
We are about 2 months from having a full enterprise-level SaaS product ready for production. ONC (HHS) funded it, so we will be publishing an open source version as well.
We have always thought there would be very little interest in anyone else wanting to use the open-source version, but it's possible that there would be far more interest now with the current crisis. We were trying to be ready for the upcoming hurricane season and Covid-19 took us off-guard.
I will post the open source repository on HN when it's available.
We are also getting close to standing up a solution that allows Washington State and NY state and others to search for patients that took COVID tests but for whom they only have partial demographics. The solution will allow the states to find hospital visit history and full addresses.
This week has been very crazy for my company.