On Monday, February 10 at 1PM EST, we will be joined by Damon Davis, Director of the Health Data Initiative at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to present our first webinar of the year on the new HHS Health Data Strategy and Execution Plan.
As an effort to make its vast array of health data resources openly available for public consumption, HHS launched an effort known as the Health Data Initiative (HDI) to release data for the purpose of sparking innovations in healthcare and the delivery of human services. In order to carry out its mission of using and disseminating data to improve health, healthcare, and human services with a greater focus, it became clear that the importance of crafting a strategic plan with specific goals and measurable outcomes to provide direction to HDI was vital. Mr. Davis has already previously written a blog entry articulating the HDI’s reasoning behind its strategic goals shortly after the strategy and execution plan was released for public feedback back in November 2013.
The first ever HDI Strategy and Execution Plan announced the following five goals:
- Advancing the HealthData.gov site to a more efficient, user friendly, technically advanced platform for data discovery.
- Highlighting departmental assets that support achieving HHS strategic initiatives and an increased focus on strategic data liberation.
- Educating new and existing, internal and external participants in the health and human services ecosystem about data availability for innovative applications and disseminating the data for problem solving.
- Enabling and incentivizing the health data ecosystem to utilize all data assets in innovative ways.
- Implementing administration and departmental policies that foster openness and transparency.
This webinar will cover an overview of each goal, invite discussion about data resources the public would like to have access to, and encourage sharing about the novel uses of the data for innovations across American health and social services.
Date: Monday, February 10, 2014
Time: 1:00p.m. – 2:00p.m. EST
Faculty: Damon Davis, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Please join us by registering for the webinar here (registration is required). We look forward to seeing you and any questions!