Healthcare IT News September 24, 2019
Mike Miliard
At Health 2.0, HHS Chief Data Officer Mona Siddiqui spotlighted recent efforts, including some cloud-based dynamic data and mapping tools, to link far-flung data for better public health.
Speaking at the Health 2.0 Annual Conference in Santa Clara, California, this past week, Mona Siddiqui, chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, offered a progress report on some of the agencies population-focused data innovations across 50 states and five territories.
For example, she pointed to the HHS EmPOWER Program, which for the past six years has helped get mission critical data to the frontlines in “fractions in a second” for vulnerable populations in disasters such as Hurricane...
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