While our nation has made tremendous strides in rolling out COVID-19 vaccinations, there is still the ongoing need for streamlining overall pandemic surveillance reporting by health systems and care facilities. 

At the recent annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Daniel Pollock, the Surveillance Branch Chief in CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), discussed how there’s a need to minimize the manual processes, and leverage data automation, with regards to COVID-19 reporting. 

He also discussed how the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) plans to use standards for automating hospital pandemic data collection and reporting. The goal is to have health systems provide standard measure reports and supplementary data to the NHSN. From there, the NHSN will provide the data sets and dashboards to local, state and federal partners.

Along the lines of minimizing the manual processes for COVID-19 reporting, we recently published a blog post about how RosettaHeath is streamlining this process for long-term and post acute care (LTPAC) facilities.

RosettaHealth’s NHSN Direct offering will soon offer LTPAC facilities a less-intensive solution to gather the data locally, and then be able to submit it with a few mouse clicks. This will also work for any healthcare facility that needs to report this data, including LTPAC facilities.

There have been many lessons learned due to the pandemic. As COVID-19 surveillance reporting becomes more streamlined and efficient, it will make it easier for care facilities to manage this effort throughout the tale-end of the pandemic – and lay the foundation for any future health crises. 

For more information about how your facility can streamline and automate COVID-19 POC Test reporting, please visit our NHSN Direct website here.