NYC to shell out $5M to better collect health data after system crashed during pandemic

[Kamaji]

NYC to shell out $5M to better collect health data after system crashed during pandemic

By Carl Campanile
June 18, 2023

The city Health Department says its disease data collection system was so swamped during the pandemic that it needs to spend $5 million to overhaul it.

“The current state [Electronic Data Reporting Infrastructure]  was not able to process the overwhelming reporting of COVID 19,” the department’s Fund for Public Health said in its solicitation for bids on a $5 million, three-year contract to upgrade its data system.

“The EDRI Replacement solution design must accommodate new sources of health information to support public health response, including outbreak activities,” the proposal says.

All parts of the Big Apple’s health-care system were under tremendous strain, including hospitals flooded with patients, during the COVID19 crisis.

The city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Division of Disease Control is responsible for the identification, surveillance, treatment, control and prevention of infectious diseases.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/nyc-to-shell-out-5m-to-better-collect-health-data-after-system-crashed-during-pandemic/

[PeteS in CA]

So sticking with mainframes running CICS and using COBOL programs (or whatever short-sighted silliness the City of NY did) was false economy? Who'd athunk it?