Since the beginning of the pandemic, hospitals, and public health organizations across the United States have struggled to keep up with systemic disruptions related to COVID-19. Governmental regulations related to the pandemic have been changing as quickly as our understanding of the disease itself. Due to the long-term projected impact of the pandemic, healthcare systems and public health agencies must coordinate efforts now to maintain data integrity and accessibility.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Miami-Dade County spiked on Aug. 12 after a lab submitted data from tests originally taken in June, according to a report from News 4 Jax, a local news station.

North Carolina health officials blamed LabCorp for an error that required the state to remove data from thousands of COVID-19 tests from the official count, according to a report from WRAL, a local news station.

Houston-based Texas Medical Center is now publishing metrics on COVID-19 reproduction rate, new COVID-19 cases and test positivity rates across its health system, according to a report from the Houston Business Journal.

The University of Texas at Austin found an erroneous data point that skewed its models projections that between 20,655 and 26,726 Texas would die of COVID-19 through the end of the month, according to a San Antonio Express-News report.

The Washington state health department hasn't reported a COVID-19 positivity rate since Aug. 1 due to issues with duplicate negative tests, according to a report from the Seattle Times.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said the White House used "bad data" to calculate the state's COVID-19 positivity rate and then wrongfully listed it among the "red zone" states where the virus is spreading the fastest, according to a report from 6 News, the local NBC affiliate.

Missouri's COVID-19 dashboard experienced a technical glitch that disrupted the state's ability to update its numbers, according to a report from the local NBC affiliate KSDK.

HHS' new COVID-19 data reporting protocol for hospitals has not made administrative duties for hospitals in Maine any easier, according to Maine Hospital Association President Steven Michaud. 

California's coronavirus reporting system has suffered from a technical glitch in the last week, leading to underreported cases. Some counties have stopped updating their COVID-19 dashboards with the inaccurate data, while others are trying to track the virus spread manually with spreadsheets, according to a report from The Mercury News.

University of Chicago Medicine received a $20 million federal grant to support a new medical images database focused on COVID-19 patients, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Several issues are contributing to the state underreporting COVID-19 cases and deaths, California health secretary Mark Ghaly, MD, said on Aug. 4, according to The Press-Enterprise.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Aug. 3 unveiled its violence data dashboard to track the scope, frequency and populations affected by violence in the state.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine did not provide the COVID-19 contact tracing data update during his Aug. 4 public briefing, as he had promised the week before, according to a report from Cleveland.com.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for data analytics adoption systemwide at hospitals and health systems in the U.S.

University of Southern California received $1.2 million from the National Institutes of Health for its project that aims to apply digital health tools to reduce health disparities among underrepresented populations.

The New York Department of Health has updated its vital records gender policy to recognize the nonbinary gender X in health records, including COVID-19 records, according to an Aug. 3 WXXI News report. 

State lawmakers in Pennsylvania are questioning COVID-19 reporting data after the state health department reported a 30 percent decline in the number of individuals hospitalized with the virus in a matter of hours, according to a report from The Morning Call, a Lehigh Valley-based newspaper affiliated with Tribune Publishing Co.

The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District removed hundreds of COVID-19 cases from its data dashboard after finding duplications and out-of-county cases among the official count, according to a report from the local ABC affiliate KSAT.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that lack of reliable data collection has led to artificially low numbers of coronavirus cases reported in California's Bay Area.