NYC: COVID-19 Approaches to Consider from Victoria Tiase, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Director of Research Science

Thanks to Vicky Tiase for sending out a list of recommendations at a very busy time:

• Develop COVID initial assessment templates and tailor alerts quickly
• Consider scribes for ED triage/high volume areas
• Permit nurses to place electronic orders for lab tests (dependent on state policies)
• Perform remote/video triage to preserve PPE
• Use of data for Bed tracking/vent tracking/nurse tracking
• Ability to capture/confirm a remote consent
• Coordinating patient/family visits via video to address social isolation for patients
• Answer patient questions using Telehealth
• Community/public health nursing workforce to distribute/deploy remote monitoring devices to the homes of at risk populations (ability to identify at risk pts)
• Future thoughts: enable use of robots for eldercare or patients that are quarantined