“The Department of Health and Human Services’ CTO sees the open data movement as a “baton” in a relay race.”
“Passing from the Obama administration to the Trump administration, “if it doesn’t get handed off carefully, at full speed, somebody trips up a little bit or drops the baton, we lose a lot of momentum,” Bruce Greenstein said last week at South by Southwest in Austin.”
“While Greenstein stressed the importance of sharing data during a panel discussion, he and a colleague also didn’t mince words when describing the stumbling blocks the department faces in negotiating the sharing of data within government or outside of it.”
“We’ve got to really run hard,” Greenstein said. “We don’t share nearly enough data from within government and clearly not outside of government, on health…”
“One difficulty is proving data’s value to people not typically “steeped in the data space,” said Mona Siddiqui, chief data officer at HHS.”
“At HHS, Siddiqui’s team is trying to go through the department’s different data assets to understand their full lifecycle. That work includes looking at things like how the data was collected, and what agreements were signed to get it…” Read the full article here.
Source: At SXSW, HHS outlines the stumbling blocks to sharing data – By Samantha Ehlinger, March 19, 2018. FedScoop.
