“Data is the life blood running through almost every part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ mission.”
“This means each bureau across the agency is looking for the right tools and the right people to make that blood pump faster to reach the vital mission organs.”
“Andrea Norris, the chief information officer at the National Institutes of Health, said her agency is investing heavily in these areas, maybe most importantly in people…”
“Over at HHS headquarters, Todd Simpson, the chief product officer at HHS, said he spends about 80 percent of his time focused on data. He said the areas he’s focused on is developing a business analytics platform and a data lake around some back office data sets like human resources and procurement…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIH to hire chief data science strategist as part of its drive to harness big data – By Jason Miller, February 22, 2019. Federal News Network.