NEW: How VUMC is keeping telehealth visits private and secure

Patients who use My Health at Vanderbilt to complete their telehealth visits with Vanderbilt Health doctors or other providers can rest assured that their visit is private and secure. View...

UPDATED: Adult COVID-19 testing guidance for clinicians

Test patients with acute onset lower respiratory tract infection symptoms (e.g. cough, shortness of breath, fever, or new loss of smell). Presence of isolated upper respiratory symptoms (sore throat, congestion, runny nose) alone should not lead to testing, even if patient has contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case. View...

UPDATED: Information for patients discharged to home with confirmed COVID-19

While you are at home, it is important that you isolate yourself from others and watch for worsening symptoms. View...

UPDATED: Information for patients discharged to home with possible COVID-19

You MAY have a virus called COVID-19, also known as novel coronavirus. Assume that you have the virus until you know for sure that you don't. View...

UPDATED: Information for patients discharged to home without COVID-19 testing

You were not tested for COVID-19 today because you are not showing symptoms that you are infected. View...

UPDATED: What you should do to protect others if you have or may have COVID-19

Until you no longer need to isolate yourself from others, don't go to work, school, or public areas. If possible, use a separate bedroom and bathroom. Don’t have visitors, unless they need to be there. View...

UPDATED: Guidance for patients being admitted after COVID-19 exposure at a skilled nursing facility

All patients exposed to COVID-19 at a skilled nursing facility should be screened for symptoms of COVID-19 at admission regardless of prior COVID-19 test results. View...

UPDATED: Guidance on clearance of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients

The decision to discontinue isolation precautions should be made using a test-based strategy or a non-test-based strategy (i.e., time-since-illness-onset and time-since-recovery strategy). Meeting criteria for discontinuation of transmission-based precautions is not a prerequisite for discharge. View...

NEW: Emergency Department explores electronic PPE strategy

Vanderbilt University Medical Center emergency medicine physicians analyzed the safety, legality and technical factors necessary for implementing electronic personal protective equipment (ePPE) in an article published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). View...