Tracking Covid Shot’s Safety Puts Strain on Health IT Networks

Electronic health data systems that still can’t fully talk to one another will create challenges flagging side effects of any Covid-19 vaccine once it hits the market.

Surveillance systems to monitor everything from vaccines to cough drops have been in place for decades, and the CDC said it plans to beef up what it does for Covid-19. But finding long-term safety data on a vaccine that will likely be authorized for some segments of the population after a few months—and not years as is typical for a vaccine monitoring—will require changing the culture of patients and health-care providers who aren’t ...