[MCOH-EH] COVID-19 vaccine recordkeeping

[Abhijay Karandikar]

 Tara,

Thank you for the feedback.

The key question that I have to answer is: Is vaccine information considered "personnel medical record" and therefore be kept separate from the general medical files? If yes, then it should not automatically be transferred to EPIC and kept in a separate EH EMR. If no, then potentially all vaccine records (MMR, flu, etc.) should be entered in EPIC; why keep them separate in the first place.....

Abhijay     On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 04:30:01 AM EST, Tara Dockery <tdockery at oceanbeachhospital.com> wrote:  
 
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Our clinic is manually entering them into our state information system, because while my employee health does have the capability to send our flu vaccines to the state system, our Administration did not buy the interface to save some money. Now providers are calling to ask for copies if I am not having our employees entered and scanned by the clinic. Either way did that decision save any money if it is making more work for the  staff who is paid by the hour?
 
  
 
Tara
 
  
 
From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net]On Behalf Of Abhijay Karandikar via MCOH-EH
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 6:16 AM
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Cc: Abhijay Karandikar <dr_abhik at yahoo.com>
Subject: [MCOH-EH] COVID-19 vaccine recordkeeping
 
  
 
I wanted to get some insight from all of you to see what OSHA states in terms of keeping personnel medical records separate from general medical records for vaccines. For those of you who have separate OH EMRs, are you transmitting vaccine (eg. flu vaccine) records to EPIC? Specifically, in case of COVID-19 vaccine, where will you be storing vaccine records?
 
  
 
Our system plans to track administration and record doses, etc. in EPIC. Would it need to be in the OH EMR as well? Is there regulatory guidance on this?
 
  
 
A Happy Thanksgiving to all!
 
Thanks and stay safe!
 
  
 
Abhijay
 
  
 
Abhijay P. Karandikar, MD, MPH, FACOEM
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