https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8AZAFWwmKs&=&feature=youtu.be
TAKEAWAYS:
-Figure out how to best manage limited hospital resources, and how to factor in supply with the rest of the states—test kits, swabs, masks, PPE (it's difficult to set different criteria and priority for different supplies) -how to anticipate demand
-Tracking what we've seen from other states and using that to help set up criteria for what supply demand might be
-Data sets exported into Excel will help hospitals organize better—a good data repository that brings in info from various sources (basically and excel doc to help match up needs with what's on hospital side)
-Coming up with strategies to stretch what supplies we have
-As supply increases we want to be able to test more and more people
-Input problem—trying to processing data appropriately and the output side being able to determine what the criteria is for a test (digesting data and using it to inform operational decisions at a hospital)
-Matching states actions with their data to see what worked and what helped in decreasing outbreaks (explore good data points to tie to a trend) How can we figure out what we can use now and how will that inform us in mid and long term—experiment with data visualization
-Getting important data all in same unified format so it's easy for hospitals and workers to universally access and understand
-Way to track staff to map out exposure rates and see where they are contracting the virus
-Contact tracing for staff/hospital workers
-Ways to learn how other hospitals are performing well—learning their processes and procedures —tapping into hospital's operational tools
RESOURCES:
-For high level - CDC has data here;
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html
they actually added an csv export function, but someone like me is more interested in what’s the historical cases reported per day and where so we can see when trends change, just a new total is pretty useless (someone like me wants to know that but also # of new / day – which if you had running daily totals is easy to get).
-MA has the same thing https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting , even breaks it out by county and other demo’s (they at least publish the old docs in word and .pdf – so if someone had a lot of time they can get the new daily cases)