Health records professionals are up in arms over a recent change by the Trump Administration in how to report COVID-19 data.<br />CNN reports public health advisers to the US government said in a letter that they are 'extremely concerned' and 'troubled' by the change in procedure.<br />The letter described hospitals as 'scrambling' to determine how to meet new daily COVID-19 reporting requirements to the DHHS.<br />The authors added retiring the older system jeopardized data integrity.<br />One doctor said the new system was marred by inconsistencies, rendering it 'almost impossible' to use for real-time decisions during the pandemic.
