Healthcare IT News December 14, 2023
Andrea Fox

The agency said the new strategy is critical to achieving its goal of reducing cancer deaths by 50% and improve the burdens of cancer treatments on patients and families.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its data strategy to improve human health outcomes. The goal is to make data available, accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable and protected so that it can be used effectively by HHS, its partners and the public to improve public health, according to Thursday’s announcement.

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The data strategy is also designed to promote greater access to data to advance cancer research under the goal of the Biden Cancer Moonshot, an initiative that seeks to cut the cancer death rate in...

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