“As federal health IT officials are looking toward 2021, their focus is on leveraging data more effectively, furthering cloud adoption, investing in their workforces and partnering with industry teams who can offer packaged rather than point solutions.”
“Officials from the Departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs highlighted their goals for the coming year during the FedHealthIT 100 Awards, where leaders like Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CIO Suzi Connor emphasized continued modernization of their assets for effective demands for data.”
“’We are undergoing CDC’s public health data modernization initiative,’ Connor said. ‘This initiative requires the creation of a public health data platform that’s scalable to meet the demands of the data that is so elastic and growing and complex amongst our organizations. So implementing systems that allow for the timely, easy intake and analysis of data, both from our traditional and non-traditional data sources.’”
“This transformation of CDC’s core infrastructure takes on a ‘very aggressive cloud modernization strategy,’ Connor added, which will involve reducing on-premise infrastructure and migrating data systems to the cloud to achieve scalability. Key to this are CDC’s enterprise data and analytics visualization platform and the agency’s move toward serverless technology.”
“’This will enable faster analytics and decision-making that was not available in our legacy technology,’ Connor said of CDC’s modernization. ‘New data visualization techniques are being used to share with clinicians, patients and policymakers to improve public health.’”
“IT infrastructure modernization to the cloud is critical to CMS next year, said the agency’s CIO Rajiv Uppal. Particularly, Uppal is interested in enabling faster cloud adoption and using modernized capabilities to accelerate service delivery…” Read the full article here.
Source: Will 2021 Be Year of the Cloud for Federal Health IT? – By Melissa Harris, November 27, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
