“While one primary focus of the Biden administration’s President’s Management Agenda is continuing to improve Federal IT to enable better delivery of citizen services, tech leaders from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) explained on Feb. 1 that they face emerging challenges in pursuing those goals.”
“At AFCEA Bethesda’s 14th Annual Health IT Event, HHS officials discussed what they see as emerging challenges and innovations related to meeting the goals of the PMA, as well as agency goals.”
“For Shannon Jackson, executive director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at HHS, the biggest challenge comes down to ‘how do we grow that industrial base…'”
“Don Burgess, the deputy chief information officer at HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, said his team is ‘trying to do it right, right out the gate’ when it comes to emerging innovations.”
“’We’re building an integrated data platform, and the intent of the data platform is to migrate existing data into a more secure environment – cloud-based – and in so doing, we plan to be able to align our datasets with other organizations,’ Burgess said.”
“’We want to integrate, we want to be able to share information, and the only way to do that is to have these common datasets,’ he added.” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS Officials Discuss PMA, Future IT Challenges, Innovations – By Grace Dille, February 2, 2022. MeriTalk.
