The hospital’s system had been including anyone who ever tested positive for COVID-19 within Jackson’s system, regardless of when the positive test occurred, in the number of inpatients with COVID-19. In some cases, the diagnosis was months old.
On Dec. 8, the health system reported 30 of the 170 patients counted as COVID-19 positive were removed because their cases weren’t active.
Jackson’s IT staff will need to develop a new method for querying the internal database for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
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