Integrating a State Vaccine Scheduling System Into the EHR

Armed with the specific application programming interface (API), Malseed, along with the mixture of Keck and Cerner health IT professionals, got to work to integrate the solution as soon as possible to alleviate administrative and patient burden.

“By using our own native EHR, it allowed us to have more information on the patient when we're vaccinating them, rather than some of the traditional super sites that do not have access to patient data,” Malseed added. “Whereas by executing this process through our own EHR, we participate in health information exchanges, so there is more information available to our physicians when they're vaccinating the patients.”

This specific integration was strictly for COVID-19 vaccinations, but with the groundwork set and the integration mapped out, Keck could leverage the code for future widespread vaccinations.