“Data integration is a top priority for the National Institutes of Health’s modernization efforts, with an emphasis on interoperability.”
“Susan Gregurick, the associate director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy at the NIH, discussed her office’s initiatives on creating a solid infrastructure to share public health data…”
“Gregurick discussed the various collaborations and advanced in data science and technology prompted by COVID-19, and how the latest NIH initiatives have run on extracting and scaling data to share between offices and sites, including information on medical histories, demographics, COVID-19 cases and immunization records.”
“She added that the very large volumes of data and data sets make scalability between offices a critical part of business operations within the NIH.”
“’The overall goal is to provide a modernized, integrated biomedical data ecosystem, and that sounds super easy, but actually, it’s really not,’ Gregurick said. ‘It’s quite challenging because of the diversity of science across NIH and the diversity of needs and capabilities. An overall one size fits all strategy is very, very challenging.'”
“Other public officials spoke to public health agencies’ prioritization of interoperability, particularly in regards to the electronic health care records deployment.”
“Mary Greene, the director of Office of Burden Reduction & Health Informatics at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that automation is her agency’s plan to help seamlessly shuffle data from one user interface to another…” Read the full article here.
Source: Public Health Agencies Seek More Data Interoperability – By Alexandra Kelley, April 1, 2022. Nextgov.
