“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released a strategic plan intended to inform data science that highlights the need for health IT usability and interoperability for enabling biomedical research…”
“NIH collaborated with scientists, policymakers, scientific and professional societies, and the general public to develop the draft strategic plan. NIH then released a public Request for Information (RFI) to gain stakeholder feedback from academic institutions, advocacy groups, government agencies, health professionals, scientific research organizations, and other entities…”
“NIH’s plan aims to modernize the NIH-funded biomedical data resource ecosystem by ensuring researchers, institutions, and the general public can appropriately and easily access and utilize clinical data. The plan also seeks to develop a research workforce to capitalize on advances in data science and IT…”
“NIH outlined five overarching goals to guide its plan…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIH Strategic Plan Promotes Health IT Usability, Interoperability – By Kate Monica, June 6, 2018. EHR Intelligence.
