Encouraging Flu Vaccination Among High-Risk Patients Identified by a Machine-Learning Model of Flu Complication Risk

DATE: July 22, 2020 to May 31, 2021

The purpose of the current study is to test different interventions to determine the most effective way to promote flu vaccine uptake in a high-risk population identified by an "artificial intelligence" (AI) or machine learning (ML) algorithm. The specific aims are:

Evaluate the effect on flu vaccination rates of informing health-system patients who are identified by an ML analysis of EHR data to be at high risk for flu complications that they are at high risk with either (a) no additional explanation, (b) an explanation that this determination comes from an analysis of their medical records, and (c) the additional explanation that an AI or ML algorithm made this determination.

Evaluate the effects of the same three interventions on diagnoses of flu in the same patients.