“Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, agencies have had to adjust to working in remote environments and understanding the impact of the health crisis to make data-driven decisions. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has worked to leverage data as a strategic asset to ensure the government continued to operate.”
“’With COVID I think that really kicked us off in terms of understanding a lot of our areas that we do need to address with respect to data,’ said HHS Office of the Secretary CISO Kamran Khaliq during the Splunk Gov Summit today.”
“’In the beginning of COVID, we realized that we really need to have all the data sets, all the data points out there. So, we set up some systems to identify data, open data throughout the United States at this, this included local government, city, state, and any other jurisdiction out there within the United States that had a website, had data that was open, available.'”
“HHS, Khaliq said, had to learn how to operate outside of the organization during the shift to telework and figure out how to securely share files and sensitive data…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS Official Speaks About Leveraging Data Throughout the Pandemic – By Jordan Smith, June 29, 2021. MeriTalk.
