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# MHO mentioned | Reuters | U.S. doctors use medical records to fight measles outbreak

Reuters reports how U.S. doctors use electronic medical records to identify unvaccinated patients amid the nation's worst measles outbreak in 25 years.

February 4, 2019 by Sutter Health

CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. doctors are tapping into their electronic medical records to identify unvaccinated patients and potentially infected individuals to help contain the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 25 years.

New York’s NYU Langone Health network of hospitals and medical offices treats patients from both Rockland County and Brooklyn, two epicenters of the outbreak. It has built alerts into its electronic medical records system to notify doctors and nurses that a patient lives in an outbreak area, based on their Zip code.

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