HHS releases national data strategy to achieve better health outcomes

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.

WHY IT MATTERS

The data strategy is also designed to promote greater access to data to advance…