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Government to establish EHRs for Hurricane Katrina evacuees

EHR Connection, September 26, 2005

HHS is working to establish EHRs and a database of prescription drug records for the thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees whose medical information was lost during the disaster, according to the Associated Press (AP).

The pilot project aims to generate EHRs that document the care evacuees receive in certain hurricane shelters, according to the AP. The storm has placed the need for EHRs in sharp relief. For example, some doctors in Memphis had to rely heavily on parents' notes and memories of their children's chemotherapy treatments after the records were destroyed, says the AP. However, recovery efforts secured EHRs for 50,000 patients from the flooded New Orleans Veteran's Administration Medical Center.

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