Optimizing COVID-19 testing capabilities and clinical management using pathology informatics

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019, first reported in China in late 2019, has quickly spread across the world. The outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Here, we describe our initial efforts at the University of Florida Health for processing of large numbers of tests, streamlining data collection, and reporting data for optimizing testing capabilities and superior clinical management. Specifically, we discuss clinical and pathology informatics workflows and informatics instruments which we designed to meet the unique challenges of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing. We hope these results benefit institutions preparing to implement SARS-CoV-2 testing.

Automated HL7v2 LRI informatics framework for streamlining genomics-EHR data integration

“…15 We have previously described a custom middleware solution for moving genomic data into the EHR. 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 For the work described in this manuscript, the middleware solution was modified, with the revised solution shown in Fig. 5 and summary of tools described in Table 1 .…”