“The General Services Administration (GSA), National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Veterans Affairs are bolstering data capabilities by accelerating data sharing efforts to improve cross-agency collaboration and gain insights faster, ultimately driving agency missions…”
“At VA, leaders are accelerating efforts around paperless medical records to improve the understanding, standardization and use of veteran health data, Dr. Amy Justice, CNH Long Professor of Medicine and of Public Health at Yale University and Staff Physician with VA Connecticut Healthcare System, said during GovCIO Media & Research’s AI Gov: Mastering Data virtual event. To properly analyze and interpret data, VA is driving data sharing and collaboration…”
“Rafael Fricks, Lead AI Tech Sprints Coordinator at VA, explained that the agency is also leveraging synthetic data to understand the functions of certain AI tools that sift through data stores. He explained that using synthetic data expedites results and boosts collaboration because there are less privacy concerns compared to sharing real patient data.
‘We can generate a completely artificial set of data points that is reminiscent of the population, but doesn’t represent any particular individual,’ Fricks explained. ‘There are significantly fewer or no privacy concerns with sharing synthetic data, so we can often share through the open data initiative, and it’s an ongoing project.’…”
“As agencies continue to build out their strategies, near real-time insights will remain at the forefront of data initiatives. Justice explained that cross-agency data sharing will be pivotal to successful data analysis and interpretation.
‘The federal government and agencies need to get together and find ways to share data that are in compliance … in near real time and appropriately linked … There are a number of “mother may I’s” that really need to be in place before we can bring these data sets together and really have an understanding of an individual’s experience.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: Data-Sharing Initiatives Are Helping Agency Decision-Making – By Sarah Sybert, February 25, 2022. GovCIO.
