Improving efficiency of COVID-19 aggregate case and death surveillance data transmission for jurisdictions: current and future role of application programming interfaces (APIs).
During the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supplemented traditional COVID-19 case and death reporting with COVID-19 aggregate case and death surveillance (ACS) to track daily cumulative numbers. Later, as public health jurisdictions (PHJs) revised the historical COVID-19 case and death data due to data reconciliation and updates, CDC devised a manual process to update these records in the ACS dataset for improving the [...]
Author(s): Khan, Diba, Park, Meeyoung, Lerma, Samuel, Soroka, Stephen, Gaughan, Denise, Bottichio, Lyndsay, Bray, Monika, Fukushima, Mary, Bregman, Brooke, Wiedeman, Caleb, Duck, William, Dee, Deborah, Gundlapalli, Adi, Suthar, Amitabh B
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac090