MedIT

Starting in 2016, DOCS has used Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), a HIPAA secure online database often used for research, as an electronic medical record (EMR) system for our community health fairs. Utilizing a custom-built branching logic, DOCS created a user-friendly system that provides patients a unique record number to assist in tracking their information longitudinally across different years, assists with real-time data collecting during each health fair, and ensures a standardized screening process based on US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines and other specialty specific society screening guidelines.

This year, the Medical Informatics team (MedIT) worked on incorporating health fair pre-registration for patients into our existing REDCap EMR. Patients could access pre-registration through either a link or scanning a QR code which eased the demands on our health fair teams. In addition, patients could be triaged to various health fair stations earlier through this pre-registration process thus giving health fair teams additional time to strategize efficient health fair flow. MedIT also authored a paper that explains how DOCS uses REDCap as a novel-EMR. The hope is to disseminate this information to other student-run clinics throughout the nation and have our EMR serve as a low-cost model for others.