“The National Institutes of Health on Monday announced a sweeping initiative to revamp the way it manages data in an effort to foster the adoption of artificial intelligence, supercomputing and other technologies poised to transform medical research.”
“The agency’s Strategic Plan for Data Science sheds light on a handful of challenges facing NIH as record amounts of data pour into the agency and outlines five broad areas where leaders plan to focus their efforts over the next five years…”
“Under the strategic plan, the agency would move to a software-as-a-service model for data storage, analysis and sharing, and also create an agencywide chief data strategist…” Read the full article here.
Source: How NIH is Organizing Its Enormous Troves of Data – By Jack Corrigan, June 4, 2018. Nextgov.
