What Are the DATA Act’s Implications for Federal Agencies?

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Previous IBM Center posts about the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) of 2014 by Dan Chenok (The DATA Act and Transparency: 4 Ways that Industry Will Benefit and The DATA Act Moves Forward) and John Kamensky (Here’s Why DATA Act Implementation May Be Successful) discuss various aspects about the law. This post provides a very brief background to the law and focuses on its implementation implications for Federal agencies.

Weekly Roundup, October 5 - 9, 2015

Submitted by on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 14:20

OMB Releases Updated Agency Priority Goals. OMB director Shaun Donovan announced the Administration’s final set of two-year agency priority goals (APGs) as required by the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. The 92 goals, listed on performance.gov, include new as well as continuing efforts. VA Sets BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal) for Its APG. According to NextGov, the Tom Allin, chief veteran experience officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, has set an audacious Agency Priority Goal: 90 percent of veterans will trust VA to meet its commitments – by September 30, 2017.

How Can Providers Effectively Leverage EHRs?

Submitted by on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 13:54

Listen to the interview with Keith on Federal News Radio. Transformation is a challenging process, sometimes painful. Healthcare transformation seems to be one of the most challenging, and painful for the workforce likely due to the many stakeholders, complexity of information, need for trust and privacy and so on. Indications that the industry is moving up the curve from high cost/low productivity solutions toward low cost, highly effective solutions that bring real gains in productivity, accuracy and enable the goals of delivering better healthcare and health are starting to appear.

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