COVID Data. Health Data Audits

Which legislature is calling on health care data audits? Pennsylvania

How will this work? The Legislature’s House Budget and Finance Committee will audit data maintained by the Health Department to identify anomalies in its reporting

What: HR 1087 (2020 | PA)

Why? What was the Legislature reacting to? Discrepancy between the number of COVID-19-related deaths reported by the state’s Department of Health & those reported by coroners + inconsistencies in reporting of deaths from nursing homes and practices for reporting positive cases