Use of Electronic Health Records to Address Pressing Environmental Health Concerns Webinar Archive
This webinar, recorded on April 20th, 2022, discusses the use of electronic health records (EHRs) in environmental epidemiology. It covers the ethical, legal, and infrastructure challenges in adapting EHR resources for environmental epidemiology, successes in the use of EHRs to study health risks among various understudied patients with unique health risks, as well as the National COVID Cohort Collaborative as an emerging national EHR resource which is being used to study health risks related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Using EHRs for environmental epidemiology allows researchers to rapidly construct cohorts relevant to studying a variety of pressing environmental health questions such as the impact of air quality on hospital utilization and how environmental risks may differ for individuals with underlying disease that are often not well represented in standard, population-based cohorts. Additionally, EHRs have been essential to allow us to examine how environmental exposures shaped how the pandemic unfolded and may be impacted by "long COVID."
Use of EHRs to Address Environmental Health Concerns Webinar Recording
Use of EHRs to Address Environmental Health Concerns Webinar Slides (pdf)