Frequently, public health agencies face challenges like, opioid abuse, suicide prevention (Veterans), or our present crisis, covid-19. As we have seen with covid-19, one of our biggest challenges as a society is having accurate data analytics that Federal leaders, and society at large, can trust and drive the necessary actions to avoid a major disaster. One of the major challenges that Chief Data Officers face is that during these public health emergencies, their well thought out agencies’ enterprise data management approach to their data and information assets is simply not agile and consumable enough and they are forced to do the best with the data they have readily available.
During this webinar, our panelists from CMS and VA will discuss the data-driven approaches their organizations have taken in public health crisis situations such as COVID-19. We’ll discuss how data was used strategically and how the information and insights gleaned from the data was made available within the agencies and distributed to the public.
When: July 16, 12:00pm, EDT – 1:00pm, EDT
Panelists will answer questions such as:
- What specific problem(s) their agency was trying to solve with data analytics
- How they prioritized data needs, and who was involved in this process
- How the data prepared, managed, and ultimately, distributed
- How the insights gleaned through the data was made available to the necessary stakeholders for decision making
- What lessons were learned in the process
- What approach to data analytics would they use in the future during a crisis situation
- How industry can support agencies to better prepare for and respond to the next big public health crisis
Panelists:
- Dr. Tamara (Tami) Box, PhD, Director, Clinical Systems Development & Evaluation, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) (Confirmed)
- Jack Bate, Director, Business Intelligence Service Line (BISL), Office of Information Technology (OIT) (Confirmed)
- Allison Oelschlaeger, Chief Data Officer & Director of the Office of Enterprise Data & Analytics (OEDA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Moderator:
Sanjay Sarma, Managing Partner, Prosperata
