Becker's Healthcare May 3, 2023
The CDC has released its first-ever strategic plan on public health data, which aims to “help our nation quickly respond to health threats, promote health equity and improve health outcomes,” the agency said in a May 3 tweet.
It can take longer than 12 months for “data on some reportable conditions to become available in national datasets or be disseminated in accessible and interoperable format,” the report notes — which is one of the many issues it hopes to address in modernizing public health data nationally.
The 20-page document outlines several key public health missions, which it notes all have two-year accountability milestones through its new Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology. The office will be responsible...
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