BAHM board member Pinar Karaca Mandic and teams at The Medical Industry Leadership Institute (MILI) and the Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC) at the Carlson School of Management launched a “COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project” website on March 26th to consistently track and report daily hospitalizations from all the 50 states of the United States.
As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolds across the US, one of the greatest barriers is the absence of credible and consistent data. Currently, the only reliable daily data point available from all 50 states is the number of deaths and tests. While important, these metrics do not provide an adequate lens into the impact of the crisis on our healthcare infrastructure. Tracking daily hospitalization data is a major step forward in quantifying the current impact on local hospital systems, modeling and forecasting future utilization needs, and tracking the rate of change in the disease severity, and optimizing allocation of resources across states.
Here is the UMN press release:
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/u-m-researchers-launch-us-covid-19-hospitalization-tracking-project