Why Are Data Glitches Continually Skewing Hawaii’s Covid-19 Numbers?… The state’s tracking system is like a complex information highway, moving data from many labs to a central reporting point. But some say there are too many traffic jams.
On Aug. 26, Francis Chan, the chief executive of the Hawaii Health Information Exchange, received troubling news.
The information exchange is a key institution on the data highway that moves Covid-19 information from testing labs to the Hawaii Department of Health, and eventually to the public.
Batches of Covid-19 test data, Chan learned, had gotten held up on the info path from one of the testing labs. As a result, the numbers that had been reported to the public over more than a week were wrong.
