HHS

• Artificial Intelligence

HHS CAIO Oki Mek said the agency's AI playbook aims to help overcome common challenges around AI adoption.

Blockchain is rising as a nascent technology that enables reliable information exchange throughout networks, and federal agencies are starting to embrace the emerging technology to drive efficiencies — including in grants management work.

• Data
• Health care

The Department of Health and Human Services is increasing its focus on social determinants of health to address unmet health needs through a multi-sector, complex approach.

Federal IT program and project managers are looking to maximize collaboration across stakeholders and customers as they implement Agile methodologies to improve the development process.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services has been developing rapid, innovative solutions to support national response efforts.

Throughout the national COVID-19 response, government agencies have worked to expand access to care and address long-standing health equity challenges across the public health system.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin providing gender confirmation surgery to transgender veterans as part of the latest move across the federal government reinforcing recent anti-discrimination interpretation of the Affordable Care Act.

• Health IT

HHS’ at-home and self-testing services could help the public maintain health safety amid reopening plans.

• Health care

The nearly quarter increase in funding would largely go toward strengthening public health preparedness.

• Data

Chief data officers across HHS are strengthening platforms that speed up data collection and management.

Agile approaches can give agencies a boost in decommissioning legacy systems and forging a path for the tech future.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data

Data-driven platforms are pushing new solutions and remedying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.