“The power of data is driving innovation around cloud technologies and other pandemic-response efforts at the Department of Health and Human Services, and as health threats evolve the agency’s chief data officer is touting these benefits to encourage ongoing collaboration across the entire department’s footprint.”
“’We want to encourage better data sharing throughout the department, adopting a ‘better input, better insights’ mentality,’ said Kevin Duvall, acting chief data officer of HHS during ACT-IAC’s April Health Community of Interest.”
“Duvall’s office spearheaded the ReImagine Data Insights Initiative, which will help drive department-wide data science and AI capabilities by streamlining data sharing, optimizing data access and increasing the availability of new analytic tools. Duvall hopes these new capabilities will reduce the amount of time to make data-driven decisions.”
“’My job is to connect the pieces and parts of the department and ensure that we’re using our data assets to the fullest extent,’ he said. ‘We’re building core infrastructures at the department that support solid data sharing, analysis and evidence and data-driven results as a whole.’”
“Duvall, who was previously deputy CDO and assumed his current position in February, is doing this through fostering collaboration, developing new policies and services, and creating standards to improve data management and programs. The HHS Protect Public Data Hub, for example, provides information on the current state of the American health care system as the agency continues efforts around its pandemic response…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS CDO Touts Collaboration Goals for Data Sharing — By Sarah Sybert, April 21, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
