Public health professionals throughout the United States are responding to the recent fungal meningitis outbreak. According to government health officials, approximately 14,000 people are at risk of contracting the rare form of meningitis, threatening patients nationwide who received a steroid injection of a potentially contaminated product into the spinal area. The deadly outbreak has sickened more than 200 people in 14 states, including 15 who have died.
The CDC, FDA and state and local health departments are working together to investigate and respond to the multi-state fungal meningitis outbreak with emergency managers, epidemiologists, SNS coordinators and other public health officials ensuring that medical countermeasures and emergency supplies are in place.
As part of the response, irms|PM® Patient Management is being used to facilitate the tracking and management of patients and the prevalence of the outbreak. With the patient count growing, public health officials are focused on monitoring and storing key patient metrics in the event of patient follow up, administration, sheltering and/or transportation. irms|PM features such as multi-system data synchronization to send/receive data using HL7 communications, and visual Dashboard displays, maps and reports are critical components to the response.
About IRMS Software Nearly 40% percent of U.S. states along with large counties and cities nationwide trust IRMS software for management of everything from assets and inventory to patients and emergency resources. IRMS software is the ultimate tool for complete situational awareness providing, fast, accurate visibility in public health, from first response, patient triage, transportation and tracking to centralized warehousing, asset management and recovery.
Built on a sophisticated IT framework, the system provides HIPAA compliance for patient privacy and security, and supports ICD-9/10 diagnostic and other code sets, electronic informed consent, end-to-end patient and inventory transaction auditing to U.S. FDA 21 CFR Part 11 standards, robust business intelligence and reporting, and OASIS EDXL and HL7-XML among many other means of information sharing.
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