CHCF October 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed serious flaws in how health data is collected and shared within states across the nation. The federal government relies on this patchwork of state systems to decide how to deploy resources to address the health needs of the populations it serves.
Nationally, investment in health data infrastructure has been woefully lacking for years, with significant consequences for public health reporting. California experienced that in February when officials decided to publish a vaccination dashboard to track the administration of COVID-19 vaccines just as large-scale inoculation efforts were getting underway in earnest. Due to the limitations of the aging data systems, the state dashboard was unable to provide an accurate accounting of how many Californians had been...
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