Becker's Healthcare November 8, 2021
The U.S. will not be prepared for future public health crises unless it fixes its outdated and fragmented health data systems, two physicians argued in a Nov. 7 opinion piece published in The Los Angeles Times.
The article was written by Ali Khan, MD, the former director of the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, and William Kassler, MD, CMO of Palantir Technologies. They laid out three main areas of improvement the U.S. should focus on as it reimagines its health data systems.
- The U.S. must establish a new comprehensive national data infrastructure that eliminates data silos. The CDC is beginning to make these changes with its data modernization initiative, but the agency needs to employ...
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