Health IT Analytics October 26, 2023
The new center aims to bolster New York City’s population health surveillance and improve outcomes by linking healthcare, public health, and social service data.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) established the Center for Population Health Data Science this week in an effort to improve the city’s public health data infrastructure.
The center’s work aims to effectively link and leverage healthcare, public health, and social service data.
“Data is much more than numbers on a page,” said Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD, commissioner of the DOHMH, in the press release. “Data sounds alarms, spurs action, and drives planning, programs, and policy in health. It is our superpower in public health, and has quite literally, saved lives....
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