Healthcare IT News January 21, 2021
The strategy includes a proposed executive order that will direct federal agencies to ramp up collection, sharing and analysis of data to “support an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery.”
President Joe Biden released a comprehensive COVID-19 national strategy on his first full day in office, providing a road map aimed at guiding the United States out of the pandemic.
The wide-ranging plan is organized around seven main goals, many of which rely on data-sharing as a core tactic.
“We can and will beat COVID-19. America deserves a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is driven by science, data, and public health – not politics,” read the strategy’s executive summary.
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