HHS Taking Over Collection of COVID-19 Hospital Data
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The gist of it is that the administration gives hospitals 48 hours to switch their data reporting, from reporting into an existing CDC system, to reporting into a new, different system controlled by the HHS Department, one built by a contractor who was awarded the contract about three months ago (April 2020).
I can believe that CDC's system may be too laden with legacy baggages, to the point where a brand new system built from the ground up can outperform it at some metrics. Against a system that "collects data from every hospital in the country," I am skeptical that such a system can be made ready for prime time in only three months time, I am also skeptical that all the hospitals can just "switch" their data reporting with only 48 hours notice. But ultimately I do not know enough about either system to judge them one way or another.
@Mik , you have spent some serious time with healthcare IT systems ... what do you make of all this?
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I can guaran-freaking-tee you that there are going to be a mountain of problems with this, so I hope the contractor's ready for some very serious work regarding updates and how-tos.
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@Loki said in HHS Taking Over Collection of COVID-19 Hospital Data:
Do we know how long it took hospitals to build reporting to CDC in the first place and can they simply redirect reports if formats are the same?
When I was part of the team that built a new system used by 95% of US hospitals to report to CDC it took about a year. And the hospitals reported by filling out paper forms and sending them to Ann Arbor, MI. This was 1979.
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Depends on if they used an existing system...Even if they did, there will be teething problems. OTOH, people have been screaming behind the scenes that something had to be done.
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These seems most likely motivated by a desire to increase political control of information dissemination.
When will these idiots realize that managing optics isn’t enough.
