SMART COVID Navigator: A Clinical Decision Support for COVID-19 (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected 83 million individuals at the time of writing. In this paper, we describe the creation of a clinical decision support tool, the SMART COVID Navigator, a web application to assist clinicians in treating COVID-19 patients. A large volume of research findings from observational studies about disease interactions with COVID-19 are being produced almost daily. Our app allows clinicians to access a patient’s electronic health records and identify disease interactions from a large set of observational research studies that affect severity and fatality due to COVID-19. We also analyze the results of the collected studies to determine which medical conditions result in an increased chance of severity and/or fatality of COVID-19 progression.