SOUTH CAROLINA: COBRE researcher receives $1.67M NIGMS grant to update CDC vaccination recommendations
Dr. Xia Jing, Assistant Professor in Public Health at Clemson University and SC TRIMH COBRE faculty, received a five-year, $1.67M NIH NIGMS grant to improve process to update Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccination recommendations in clinics’ computer systems, enhance patient care.
The project’s goal is to make it easier for health care providers in small primary care settings to update their clinical decision support rules from the CDC independently. These clinical decision support rules for immunizations can help physicians provide the recommended immunizations for patients more consistently.
“This work will facilitate primary care delivery with constantly updated CDS rules,” Jing said. “This investigation has the potential to allow primary care providers to provide more consistent preventive services and improve CDC-recommended immunization compliance in primary care settings.”
“We need interoperability, although immunization records are a starting point,” Jing said. “Our life would be so much easier in keeping track of all immunization records over a lifetime. The complete immunization history of the patient would be portable with the patient when he or she moved to a new health care setting.”