Newsday - Drive-Thru Vaccine Distribution, Reaching the Marginalized, and CIO Priorities

February 22, 2021: Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Vaccinate. Sue Schade from StarBridge Advisors joins Bill to discuss the news. Sue has been monitoring vaccine distribution and sharing it with the community through her blog. UC Health released a must-read COVID-19 mass drive-thru vaccination playbook. Health officials are struggling to gather critical data including race, ethnicity and occupation of individuals who receive the COVID-19 vaccine. How can we make this easier for those on the front lines to capture? Can we do audits to see where our system has gaps? Some state systems are buckling under the pressure. What is a CIO to do in this case? And what’s going on in Texas? Will their vaccine reporting issues cost them less doses from the federal government? Epic’s platform now has 100 mass vaccination sites using it but remember it’s not a CRM. Is this a square peg in a round hole type situation? 

Key Points:

• The number one thing CIOs are talking about now is the flexibility needed in their role [00:24:55] 
• Cybersecurity has not gone away. In fact it’s elevated. [00:26:50] 
• The silver lining of COVID was FOCUS [00:27:10] 
• The best advice you can give a CIO right now is don't get distracted [00:28:27] 
• Epic now has 100 mass vaccination sites online [00:20:40] 
• Vaccine Rollout – It Takes a Village - Sue Schade blog 
• Vaccine Rollout – It Takes a Village Part 2 - Sue Schade blog 
• Vaccine Rollout – It Takes a Village Part 3 - Sue Schade blog 

Stories:

• As Millions Get Shots, F.D.A. Struggles to Get Safety Monitoring System Running - NY Times
• COVID-19 vaccine data reveals huge gaps in race, ethnicity, occupation information - Beckers
• Delays with Texas' coronavirus vaccine reporting system may hinder allocation of doses - Beckers 
• 100 mass vaccination sites now using Epic's platform - Beckers
• Why EHRs may be slowing down COVID-19 vaccinations - Beckers
• 'Don't get distracted' and other health exec advice on vaccine rollouts - Beckers
• Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance - Press Ganey
• University of Colorado Health COVID-19 mass vaccination playbook
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