“To take on digital transformation for its 27 separate institutes and centers, the National Institutes of Health is looking ahead another five years.”
“The agency within the Department of Health and Human Services has a nearly $40 billion budget, about 80% percent of which goes to nearly 2,500 universities and medical centers nationwide. NIH supports about 300,000 researchers, which means, according to CIO Andrea Norris, much of its activity focuses on ‘investigator-researcher-initiated ideas and hypothesis for discovery.’”
“Norris is also director of the Center for IT — one of the 27 entities of NIH — and her office receives about $1 billion annual to maintain a core computational infrastructure. She said they move about 6 petabytes of data per day through the system…”
“Even as NIH wraps up this round of digital transformation it’s already begun developing the strategic plan for the next five years. The agency has a…” Read the full article here.
Source: NIH juggles digital transformation across dozens of biomedical missions – By Amelia Brust. Federal News Network, April 25, 2019.
