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Volume 28, Supplement—December 2022
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Surveillance

Leveraging PEPFAR-Supported Health Information Systems for COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Muzna Mirza1Comments to Author , Yoran Grant-Greene1, Marie P.J.S. Valles, Patrice Joseph, Stanley Juin, Stephan Brice, Patrick Dely, Marie G.R. Clement, Manish Kumar, Meredith Silver, Samuel Wambugu, Christopher Seebregts, Daniel Futerman, Fitti Weissglas, Veronica Muthee, Wendy Blumenthal, Tadesse Wuhib2, Steven Yoon2, and Daniel H. Rosen2
Author affiliations: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M. Mirza, W. Blumenthal, T. Wuhib, S. Yoon, D.H. Rosen); CDC Country Office, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Y. Grant-Greene, M.P.J.S. Valles, P. Joseph, S. Juin, S. Brice); Ministry of Public Health and Population, Port-au-Prince (P. Dely, M.G.R. Clement); PATH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA (M. Kumar, M. Silver); PATH Consortium, Seattle, Washington, USA (S. Wambugu); Jembi, Cape Town, South Africa (C. Seebregts, D. Futerman); University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA (F. Weissglas, V. Muthee)

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Table 2

COVID-19 response support leveraged from PEPFAR investments

Program area CDC headquarters CDC Haiti office
Clinical case management
 OHRI enhanced by developing a COVID-19 module for case management and surveillance at healthcare facilities
 PEPFAR-funded HIV systems were used for healthcare facilities and community-based COVID-19 case management.
Surveillance
 Enhanced national health information exchange model was used to link electronic systems for COVID-19 case confirmation and case management
 Existing interoperability solutions were leveraged for data sharing via a health information exchange across 2 national COVID-19 data hubs
Laboratory
 Automated exchange functionality was developed for COVID-19 testing requests and results between EMR and local laboratory information systems directly at a facility or through a national data repository
 PEPFAR systems were replicated for COVID-19 surveillance, and a laboratory component was added for COVID-19 laboratory data flow
Dashboard Dashboard requirements were developed for specific indicators, such as the number of persons living with HIV who were hospitalized for COVID-19 COVID-19 surveillance dashboard was built by leveraging the HIV dashboard used to track patient retention in HIV care

*CDC, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; EMR, electronic medical record; OHRI, Open medical record system HIV reference implementation; PEPFAR, United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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