“Speaking at the Health 2.0 Annual Conference in Santa Clara, California, this past week, Mona Siddiqui, chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, offered a progress report on some of the agencies population-focused data innovations across 50 states and five territories.”
“For example, she pointed to the HHS EmPOWER Program, which for the past six years has helped get mission critical data to the frontlines in “fractions in a second” for vulnerable populations in disasters such as Hurricane Dorian and the California wildfires…”
“HHS’ Immunization Gateway, meanwhile, which was launched in 2013 to boost consumer access to immunization records and enable more informed patient decisions, has helped improve population health by breaking down silos and filling in critical missing pieces…”
“She also touted the recent success of a collaborative tool to update mapping of drug disposal sites on Google Maps, inspired by a winning solution from the HHS Opioid Codeathon in 2017…” Read the full article here.
Source: How HHS is innovating data aggregation and visualization to boost pop health – By Mike Miliard, September 24, 2019. HealthcareITNews.
