“Two different people are publicly claiming to be chief data officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, creating confusion about who actually holds the legally required CDO role.”
“Mona Siddiqui has held the title of CDO within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer since 2017, but department CIO Jose Arrieta repeatedly called himself the acting CDO while speaking at the GovDATAx conference Wednesday…”
“Neither Arrieta nor Siddiqui returned requests for comment. However, a spokeswoman for the Office of the CTO said Siddiqui is CDO and Arrieta is CIO. A spokesman for HHS, meanwhile, confirmed Arrieta’s accounting.”
“One of the requirements of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, signed into law in January, is that all CFO Act agencies appoint a nonpolitical CDO. But the law is vague and doesn’t lay out specific requirements for where a CDO should sit within an agency, creating ambiguous scenarios like the one at HHS…” Read the full article here.
Source: Who is actually chief data officer at HHS? – By Dave Nyczepir and Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, November 1, 2019. FedScoop.
