Healthcare organizations increasingly embrace technology to help their teams collect and report COVID-19 data. (Photo: Leo Wolfert/Shutterstock) Healthcare organizations increasingly embrace technology to help their teams collect and report COVID-19 data. (Photo: Leo Wolfert/Shutterstock)

The potential for a COVID-19 outbreak to quickly consume a hospital's resources has put data tracking at the center of response efforts. Ongoing analysis of this information produced alarming results in mid-November, as daily COVID-19 hospitalization counts reached new highs and a widening geographic spread touched remote regions that were largely spared in earlier surges.

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