The CDC is calling for vendors to provide white papers on utilizing EHR data to determine the effectiveness of vaccines against respiratory diseases, like COVID-19, Govexec reported Jan. 3.
Traditionally, the CDC has relied on resource-intensive small sample sets to test the effectiveness of vaccines. Through utilizing EHR data, the agency is looking to improve its flexibility in responding to public health crises and tap into a larger sample size.
Awards will be given to vendors based on cost realism, reasonableness and fund availability.
"Developing and validating automated and standardized methods to extract large amounts of data from electronic health records will improve the timeliness and efficiency of vaccine effectiveness estimates, and the ability to produce more precise estimates by product-type and within subgroups of interest," the agency said in its sam.gov post.
Read the full sam.gov call for white papers here.