In the News
Below you’ll find news, hot topics, and more information that matters in the world of public health data and surveillance inside and outside CDC.
Latest News
Securing the Government Cloudexternal icon, Nextgov
This e-booklet from Nextgov aims to empower government entities as they step up the security of their cloud.
Trump’s Budget Pushes Bonuses and Reskilling to Build Up IT Workforceexternal icon, Nextgov
The president’s 2021 budget proposal includes enticements for workers to seek – and stay in – federal IT jobs.
Federal Tech Guide to Trump’s 2021 Budgetexternal icon, Nextgov
Learn how the newly-released 2021 budget supports tech across the government.
Hot Topics
- Read CSTE’s Driving Public Health in the Fast Lane: The Urgent Need for a 21st Century Data Super Highwayexternal icon
- Curious about how CDC releases mortality data? Learn more
- Read about our developing work to support a National Neurological Conditions Surveillance System
- CDC Selects Parkinson’s as One of the First Diseases Included in New Databaseexternal icon
- Digital Bridge launches its first live electronic case reporting siteexternal icon
- How The Digital Bridge Is Transforming Public Health Interoperabilityexternal icon
- CDC Surveillance Strategy Report 2014-2018
- FHIR and Public Healthexternal icon
- Medical examiners can now upload death certificates via – what else? – an appexternal icon
Media Resources and Data Releases
Find links to important CDC data and additional resources for members of the media on our Media Resources and Select Data Releases page.
February
- Securing the Government Cloudexternal icon, Nextgov, February 13, 2020
- Trump’s Budget Pushes Bonuses and Reskilling to Build Up IT Workforceexternal icon, Nextgov, February 12, 2020
- Federal Tech Guide to Trump’s 2021 Budgetexternal icon, Nextgov, February 11, 2020
- Dr Don Rucker on interoperability, FHIR and global collaborationexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, February 5, 2020
January
- GSA Official: Agencies Should Build Testing Data and Environments Specifically for AIexternal icon, Nextgov, January 29, 2020
- State Department CIO’s Plan to Reengineer Agency’s IT Processexternal icon, Nextgov, January 28, 2020
- Apple, Cerner call for interoperability rule release ‘without further delay,’ highlighting industry riftexternal icon, Fierce Healthcare, January 27, 2020
- An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virusexternal icon, Wired, January 25, 2020
- A CISA release noting the guidance directs administrators to an analysis of Microsoft Office 365external icon, Nextgov, January 24, 2020
- New federal website design standards emphasize ‘continuous improvement’external icon, Federal News Network, January 23, 2020
- VA’s Artificial Intelligence Director Details AI Institute’s Early Effortsexternal icon, Nextgov, January 22, 2020
- GSA Publishes Web Standards for Year-Old Digital Services Lawexternal icon, Nextgov, January 22, 2020
- Your Fitbit could help health officials predict flu outbreaks in real-timeexternal icon, CNN, January 16, 2020
- CDC: More than 15% of U.S. adults physically inactiveexternal icon, The Washington Times, January 16, 2020
- Many vaping-related lung injury victims used THC products from ‘informal sources,’ CDC saysexternal icon, Philly Voice, January 15, 2020
- Stealth Disease Likely To Blame For 20% Of Worldwide Deathsexternal icon, NPR, January 16, 2020
- Don’t Die Wondering: Apps May Soon Be Able to Predict Your Life Expectancy, but Do You Want to Know?external icon, Nextgov, January 15, 2020
- Google under fire for its efforts to access health recordsexternal icon, Health Data Management, January 14, 2020
- AMIA seeks policy refinements in its comments to NIH and FDAexternal icon, Health Data Management, January 14, 2020
- FITARA Hits Its 5-year Anniversaryexternal icon, Nextgov, January 13, 2020
- FDA’s Data Strategy Modernization Starts With Public Outreachexternal icon, Nextgov, January 7, 2019
- Millennium Health to provide HHS with drug testing dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, January 7, 2020
- Tackling transformative change: Investing in data, talent and technologyexternal icon, Health Data Management, January 7, 2020
- Overcoming a Collective Failure of Imagination—How to Diagnose It and What to Do About Itexternal icon, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, January 1, 2020
December
- New Year’s Resolutions Federal Employees and Their Agencies Can Actually Keepexternal icon, Nextgov, December 26, 2019
- Agencies Will Start 2020 With 20 Data Actions to Complete by Year’s Endexternal icon, Nextgov, December 24, 2019
- OMB adds 4 new action items for agencies to meet next year in finalized Federal Data Strategyexternal icon, Federal News Network, December 23, 2019
- Three ways the federal security landscape will shift in 2020external icon, Federal News Network, December 23, 2019
- Federal deputy CIO Graves to move on to private sectorexternal icon, Federal News Network, December 19, 2019
- Agencies Turn In ‘Best FITARA Scorecard Ever’external icon, Nextgov, December 11, 2019
- GAO Handbook Helps Answer Whether That New Tech Is Right For Your Agencyexternal icon, Nextgov, December 9
- The Government’s Departing Shared Services Lead Explains Why This Effort is Differentexternal icon, Nextgov, December 6, 2019
- Cloud Could Enable Life-Saving Data Management at HHSexternal icon, Meritalk, Dec 4, 2019
- New government program provides HIV prevention drugs for uninsuredexternal icon, CNN, December 3, 2019
- The Tricky Ethics of Google’s Project Nightingale Effort to Learn from Millions of Health Recordsexternal icon, Nextgov, December 3, 2019
- Senators Renew Effort to Safeguard People’s Data Onlineexternal icon, Nextgov, December 3, 2019
November
- How Agencies Can Use Open Source Intelligence to Close Cybersecurity Loopholesexternal icon, Nextgov, November 27, 2019
- 5 Strategies for Building a Culture of Data Literacyexternal icon, Nextgov, November 26, 2019
- AMIA encourages NIH to fund FHIR for interoperability and clinical researchexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, November 26, 2019
- AI predicts response of lung cancer patients to immunotherapyexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 25, 2019
- GAO Hires First Data Scientistexternal icon, Nextgov, November 21, 2019
- CDC says 47 deaths and 2,290 illness now linked to vapingexternal icon, CBS News, November 21, 2019
- VA Prepping for Go-Live of Health Records System in Marchexternal icon, Nextgov, November 21, 2019
- A State Agency Scraps Its Paper-Based Licensing Systemexternal icon, Nextgov, November 19, 2019
- Why Federal Agencies Can’t Ignore the AI Buzz Much Longerexternal icon, Nextgov, November 15, 2019
- Analyst, Analyze Thyself!external icon, Nexgov, November 7, 2019
- HIEs boost efforts to form nationwide network for sharing patient dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 6, 2019
- Unraveling an HIV clusterexternal icon, The Washington Post, November 3, 2019
- Vaping-related lung injuries rise to 1,888 cases nationwide, CDC saysexternal icon, CNN, November 1
- How Five Federal Agencies Fostered Innovationexternal icon, Nextgov, November 1, 2019
October
- Knowledge management plays key role in value-based careexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, October 31, 2019
- Unstructured EHR data more useful for predictive analytics, study showsexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, October 30, 2019
- Behind The Scenes Of CDC’s Vaping Investigationexternal icon, NPR, October 25, 2019
- Lawmakers, Think Tank To Develop Bipartisan National AI Strategyexternal icon, Nextgov, October 25, 2019
- Artificial Intelligence and the Information Lifecycleexternal icon, Nextgov, October 24, 2019
- The Director of the NIH Lays Out His Vision of the Future of Medical Science, Time, October 24, 2019
- ONC partners with IHE to advance interoperability standards,external icon Healthcare IT News, October 23, 2019
- Amazon buys healthcare start-up Health Navigatorexternal icon, Reuters, October 23, 2019
- How the Government Helped Google Reach Quantum Supremacyexternal icon, Nextgov, October 23, 2019
- Teen Vapers Who Want To Quit Look For Help Via Textexternal icon, NPR, October 23, 2019
- OMB Focused on Trust and Agility in Tech Improvementsexternal icon, Nextgov, October 22, 2019
- Use of Artificial Intelligence Poised to Grow in State Government, Survey Findsexternal icon, Nextgov, October 18, 2019
- More consumers look to use tech in their healthcare journeyexternal icon, Nextgov, October 18, 2019
- Fitbit CEO sees critical role for wearable technology in healthcareexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 18, 2019
- Why there’s reason for cautious optimism with interoperabilityexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 17, 2019
- Algorithm can quickly ID cancer outcomes from radiology reportsexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 17, 2019
- Joint task force to simplify merging personal health data into EHRs, drafts FHIR specexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, October 15, 2019
- The Patent Office Is Hunting for an Artificial Intelligence Expertexternal icon, Nextgov, October 15, 2019
- USDA pilots data-driven smart farms powered by Internet of Thingsexternal icon, Federal News Network, October 14
- VA to Launch Adaptive Game Therapy Programexternal icon, Nextgov, October 11, 2019
- How OPM Cut the Paper Out of the Performance Review Processexternal icon, Nextgov, October 11, 2019
- OMB Touts Money and Time Saved From Regulatory Cuts, Eliminating Busyworkexternal icon, Nextgov, October 11, 2019
- Jeff Bezos’s Master Planexternal icon, Nextgov, October 11, 2019
- Dangers of Vaping: Facts and Statistics on Health Risks of E-Cigarettes as Lung Illness Causes Teen Deaths Across U.S.external iconexternal icon, Newsweek, October 1, 2019
Data from the CDC helps illuminate the recent trend of lives lost and lung injuries in people using e-cigarettes.
September
- How HHS is innovating data aggregation and visualization to boost pop health, Healthcare IT News, September 24, 2019
- Lawmaker Says FDA Moving Slow On E-Cigarettes, CDC Should Lead Banexternal iconexternal icon, InsideHealthPolicy, September 24, 2019
- How VA Implements Predictive Analytics to Help Prevent Veteran Suicidesexternal iconexternal icon, NextGov, September 23, 2019
- USDA Wants Feedback from 2 Million Customersexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, September 20, 2019
- 11 Percent of Cancers Detected Via Emergency Department Visitexternal iconexternal icon, Physician’s Health, September 20, 2019
- Oversight Subcommittee Announces Hearing with CDC on Outbreak of E-Cigarette-Related Lung Disease,external iconexternal icon Committee for Oversight and Reform, September 19, 2019. Related links:
- Chairman Krishnamoorthi asks CDC Representative, Dr. Anne Schuchat about the consequences of E-Cigarette Use: VIDEO (1:22)
- Chairman Krishnamoorthi Questions At Hearing With CDC E-cigarette Related Lung Disease: VIDEO (5:23)
- Statement of Testimonypdf iconexternal iconpdf iconexternal icon from Dr. Anne Schuchat at the September 19 hearing
- Orlando Health launches electronic system to speed up newborn screeningexternal iconexternal icon, Orlando Sentinel, September 19, 2019
- Vaping-related illnesses up nearly 50% since last week: CDCexternal iconexternal icon, Axios, September 19, 2019
- Feds Look to Application Programming Interfaces as Gateways to Modernizationexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, September 12, 2019
- Pentagon’s New Electronic Health Records System Deployed To Second Wave of Basesexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, September 9, 2019
- Energy Unveils Artificial Intelligence and Technology Officeexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, September 9, 2019
- For DOD, Innovation Isn’t the Problem. So What Is?external iconexternal icon , Nextgov, September 5, 2019
- Technology to advance infectious disease forecasting for outbreak managementexternal iconexternal icon, Nature Communications, September 2, 2019
- What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselvesexternal iconexternal icon, The New Yorker, September 2, 2019
- The Epidemic Prediction Initiativeexternal iconexternal icon, HHS.gov, September 1, 2019
August
- Mystery youth vaping disease reveals gaping holes in regulationexternal iconexternal icon, Politico, August 28, 2019
- Epic to gather records of 20 million patients for medical researchexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, August 28, 2019
- CDC Creating a ‘Ruckus’ Around Mortality Reportingexternal iconexternal icon, aitrends, August 22, 2019
- Pentagon Makes Its Case for JEDIexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, August 9, 2019
- Novartis C.E.O. Defends Company’s Decision to Withhold False Data From the F.D.A.external iconexternal icon, The New York Times, August 7, 2019
- FHFA Wants an App to Guide Employees During Emergenciesexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, August 7, 2019
- What To Expect From Future FITARA Scorecardsexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, August 2, 2019
- Hackathon Aims to Enhance Veterans’ Care through Public-Private Innovationexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, August 2, 2019
- Building for the Future of Government When IT Modernization Isn’t Just a Technology Upgradeexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, August 2, 2019
July
- DOD’s Next Electronic Health System Rollout Will Be Different, Officials Sayexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, July 31, 2019
- Blockchain: Taking a Cue from Historyexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, July 31, 2019
- CMS, USDS Pilot Unlocks Patient Data to Boost Provider Careexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, July 30, 2019
- Death Rates Rising for Young, Middle-Aged U.S. Adultsexternal iconexternal icon, Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2019
- Measles in U.S. creeps back toward endemic statusexternal iconexternal icon, Axios, July23, 2019
- Physician Counseling After HIV Diagnosis Could Stem Epidemicexternal iconexternal icon, Medscape, July 23, 2019
- Scientists Who Studied Candida Auris Fungus Warn Global Warming May Lead to Diseases ‘We Don’t Even Know About Right Now’external iconexternal icon, Newsweek, July 23, 3019
- CDC Urges Rapid Reporting of AFM Ahead of Prime Seasonexternal iconexternal icon, Contagion Live, July 22, 2019
- An Unprecedented Drop in Overdose Deaths Is Sadly Not Reason to Celebrateexternal iconexternal icon, Vice, July 22, 2019
- The Complexities of the DRC Ebola Outbreakexternal iconexternal icon, Contagion Live, July 22, 2019
- Wall Street’s tech transformation, a divide at Google, and the future of healthcareexternal iconexternal icon, Business Insider, July 21, 2019
- Amazon to Spend $700 Million Retraining a Third of U.S. Workersexternal iconexternal icon, Bloomberg, July 11, 2019
- How precision medicine and genomics aid in cancer careexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, July 9, 2019
- Experts Say Federal Data Strategy Needs Leaders and Funding to Succeedexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, July 8, 2019
- CDC, lieutenant governor, Florida surgeon general, health department join forces to control hepatitis A statewideexternal iconexternal icon, TC Palm, July 3, 2019
- The Federal Data Strategy is a Trump Plan We Should All Supportexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, July 2, 2019
June
- Overdose Deaths Likely to Fall for First Time Since 1990external iconexternal icon, The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2019
- White House Wants to Know How Tech Can Help Prevent Veteran Suicidesexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, June 26, 2019
- San Francisco Bans Sales of E-Cigarettesexternal iconexternal icon, NPR, June 25, 2019
- People-First Policies Will Help Close the Government’s Skills Gapexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, June 25, 2019
- Why America Needs a Thoughtful Federal Privacy Lawexternal iconexternal icon, The New York Times, June 25, 2019
- Five-year-old boy dies in Uganda as Congo Ebola outbreak spreadsexternal iconexternal icon, The Guardian, June 12, 2019
- Managing population health with analytics and social determinants of healthexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare It News, June 7, 2019
- FDA Turns to Emerging Tech to Secure the Food Systemexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, June 6, 2019
- New CIO Wants to Make HHS a Testbed for Budding Techexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, June 5, 2019
May
- ONC, CMS proposed rules continue to come under fire from stakeholdersexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, May 31, 2019
- Measles Cases Reach Highest Level in More Than 25 Years, C.D.C. Saysexternal iconexternal icon, The New York Times, May 30, 2019
- How the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Ditching Hand-coding Dataexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, May 24, 2019
- Why the Future of Work Is a Challenge for Governmentexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, May 24, 2019
- Government Needs to Diversify Its Cyber Workforceexternal iconexternal icon, Nextgov, May 21, 2019
- Healthcare in 21 years will be driven by ‘radically interoperable data’external iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, May 21, 2019
- Grieve: FHIR has disrupted health IT, but not healthcareexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, May 15, 2019
April
- HHS moves forward with plans to transform data exchangeexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 22, 2019
- FHIR Standards Continue to Shape Health IT’s Interoperability Progressionexternal iconexternal icon, Forbes, April 19, 2019
- How AI and emerging tech are transforming the healthcare workforceexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 18, 2019
- National effort urged to overhaul ‘broken’ health data systemexternal iconexternal icon, Ohio State News, April 17, 2019
- How to ensure interoperable data is usable by caregiversexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
- Typical data workloads increased by 569% in the past 2 yearsexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 11, 2019
- What you need to know about healthcare APIs and interoperabilityexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
- Apple consumer base could fuel digital disruption in careexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 10, 2019
- How to ensure interoperable data is usable by caregiversexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
- Typical data workloads increased by 569% in the past 2 yearsexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 11, 2019
- What you need to know about healthcare APIs and interoperabilityexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 11, 2019
- Apple consumer base could fuel digital disruption in careexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 10, 2019
- CDC clarifies opioid prescribing guideline, says doctors should use their ‘clinical judgement’external iconexternal icon, Fierce Healthcare, April 10, 2019
- ONC chief Don Rucker on the current state and ‘next frontier’ of interoperabilityexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, April 3, 2019
- Understanding the Terminology Around Citizen Service Delivery Technologyexternal iconexternal icon, NextGov, April 1, 2019
March
- The Pathway to Machine Learning in Federalexternal iconexternal icon, NextGov, March 29, 2019
- Management, Not Money, Will Make or Break VA Modernization, Lawmakers Sayexternal iconexternal icon, NextGov, March 26, 2019
- Flu season nears end, but medical visits remain high, CDC saysexternal iconexternal icon, USA Today, March 24, 2019
- NIH-backed startup uses machine learning to catch opioid, drug theftexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 22, 2019
- Digital health just had a record year. But is a day of reckoning ahead?external iconexternal icon, STAT, March 22, 2019
- Your health app could be sharing your medical dataexternal iconexternal icon, Reuters, March 22, 2019
- U.S. fentanyl deaths are rising fastest among African Americansexternal iconexternal icon, ScienceNews, March 22, 2019
- FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challengesexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 20, 2019
- When Email Comes to the Doctor’s Office, Wait Times Decreaseexternal iconexternal icon, The New York Times, March 18, 2019
- Apple Watch may spot heart problem but more research neededexternal iconexternal icon, The Washington Post, March 16, 2019
- U.S. hopes to send more experts to Congo as Ebola outbreak ragesexternal iconexternal icon, The Washington Post, March 14, 2019
- Security and tech advice for pharma looking to move to the cloudexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 13, 2019
- IT modernization at CDC just one piece of a bigger strategyexternal iconexternal icon, Federal News Network, March 8, 2019
- WHO unveils plans to create a Department of Digital Healthexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 8, 2019
- Implementation best practices: Launching clinical decision supportexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 7, 2019
- EHR challenges, information overload often lead to staff workaroundsexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, March 5, 2019
February
- CDC says HIV prevention progress in the US has stalledexternal iconexternal icon, Healio, February 28, 2019
- Digital transformation in healthcare remains complex and challengingexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, February 19, 2019
- Smartwatches Are Changing the Purpose of the EKGexternal iconexternal icon, The Atlantic, February 17, 2019
- With fitness trackers in the workplace, bosses can monitor your every step — and possibly moreexternal iconexternal icon, The Washington Post, February 16, 2019
- As Measles Outbreak Flares, Vaccination Rates Soar and Some Come Off the Fenceexternal iconexternal icon, The New York Times, February 16, 2019
- Proposed rules from HHS open door to healthcare API economyexternal iconexternal icon, Health Data Management, February 14, 2019
- This year’s flu vaccine is doing well, but deaths are still highexternal iconexternal icon, The Washington Post, February 14, 2019
- This Year’s Flu Shot Was Far More Effective Than Last Year’s. Here’s Whyexternal iconexternal icon, Time.com, February 14, 2019
- Evaluating visual analytics for health informatics applications: a systematic review from the American Medical Informatics Association Visual Analytics Working Group Task Force on Evaluationexternal iconexternal icon, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, February 14, 2019
- Meth Abuse Driving Big Spike in Syphilis Casesexternal iconexternal icon, HealthDay, February 14, 2019
- A Crucial Step for Averting AI Disastersexternal iconexternal icon, The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2019
- Microsoft Aims to Connect Patient Health Records in the Cloudexternal iconexternal icon, Bloomburg, February 7, 2019
- Hospitals Turn to Biometrics to Identify Patientsexternal iconexternal icon, Wall Street Journal, February 6, 2019
- New voices at the bedside: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Appleexternal iconexternal icon, Stat News, February 6, 2019
- Infectious Disease Diagnostics Market is Expected to Exhibit US$ 20 Billion by 2024external iconexternal icon, MarketWatch, February 6, 2019
- CDC Data Highlights Returning Popularity in House Call Style Care, says Dr. Michael Farzam of House Call Doctor Los Angelesexternal iconexternal icon, San Francisco Business Times, February 5, 2019
- New disease surveillance tool enables early detection of viral outbreaks,external iconexternal icon News Medical Life Sciences, February 5, 2019
- New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human-infecting virusexternal iconexternal icon, ScienceDaily, February 4, 2019
- New disease surveillance tool helps detect any human virusexternal iconexternal icon, Phys Org, February 4, 2019
- 4 Trends We Expect to See at HIMSS 2019external iconexternal icon HIT, February 1, 2019
January
- An early look at a CDC project digitizing infectious disease guidelines to work in EHRsexternal iconexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, January 30, 2019
- Fewer Americans see doctors in their office, CDC data showexternal iconexternal icon, Healthcare Dive, January 25, 2019
- CDC Fights Opioid Crisis, Infectious Disease Outbreaksexternal iconexternal icon, NIH Record, January 11, 2019
- Using Social Media Data to Identify Outbreaks and Control Diseaseexternal iconexternal icon, Government Technology, January 7, 2019
December
- Most drug overdoses involve fentanyl, CDC findsexternal icon, NPR, December 12, 2018
- Amid opioid crisis, methamphetamine deaths now on riseexternal icon, AP, December 12, 2018
- AI can predict mental health issues from your Instagram posts. But should it?external icon, New Hampshire Union Leader, December 9, 2018
- Sioux Falls nurse helped Avera Health abandon using pagersexternal icon, AP News, December 8, 2018
- Most Insured Patients Not Using Online Portalsexternal icon, Physician’s Briefing, December 7, 2018
- FDA issues new framework to advance use of real-world dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, December 7, 2018
- A Fresh Approach to the American Opioid Problemexternal icon, MediaPlanet, Accessed December 7, 2018
- Surgeon General: Federal drug classification needs changesexternal icon, AP News, December 6, 2018
- CDC says nine more people added to E.coli infection investigationexternal icon, Reuters, December 6, 2018
- Secondhand smoke still a problem for Americans: CDCexternal icon, ABCNews, December 6, 2018
- Linked to Obesity Epidemic, CDC Says This Cancer Is On Rise in U.S. Womenexternal icon, Fortune, December 6, 2018
- White House convenes healthcare stakeholders for interoperability forumexternal icon, Health Data Management, December 4, 2018
November
- America is Losing Ground to Death and Despairexternal icon, Washington Post, November 30, 2018
- House Passes Bill to Improve Government’s Digital Servicesexternal icon, Next Gov, November 29, 2018
- The Top 10 Causes of Death in the U.S.external icon, U.S. News and World Report, November 29, 2018
- U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Amid ‘Disturbing’ Rise In Overdoses And Suicidesexternal icon, NPR, November 29, 2018
- U.S. life expectancy declines again in sobering ‘wake-up call’external icon STAT News, November 29, 2018
- HHS pledges to reduce health IT regulatory burdens on cliniciansexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 28, 2018
- ‘The Numbers Are So Staggering.’ Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year.external icon, New York Times, November 20, 2018
- Protecting Americans from the Public Health Crisis of Our Timeexternal icon. Media Planet, accessed November 20, 2018
- These jobs have highest suicide rates in the United States, according to the CDCexternal icon, CNN, November 16, 2018
- Digital Bridge launches its first live electronic case reporting siteexternal icon, Robert Wood Johnson, November 15, 2018
- How Wearables Could Help NIH Fight Cancerexternal icon, Nextgov, November 15, 2018
- The new Google Health unit is absorbing health business from DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI research groupexternal icon, CNBC, November 13, 2018
- Health system moves from text-only to AI-powered interactive multimedia radiology reportsexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, November 12, 2018
- How analytics can spot data relationships indicating opioid misuseexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 12, 2018
- Draft Federal Data Strategy Too ‘Unwieldy’ to Implement, Stakeholders Sayexternal icon, Nextgov, November 8, 2018
- CDC: Cigarette smoking hits new low among adults, but youth vaping ‘epidemic’ still a concernexternal icon, USA Today, November 8, 2018
- CDC Confirms First Death Related to Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Raw Turkeyexternal icon, Time.com, November 8, 2018
- CDC: Opioid use helping drive spread of hepatitis Cexternal icon, UPI.com, November 6, 2018
- CDC director warns that Congo’s Ebola outbreak may not be containableexternal icon, The Washington Post, November 5, 2018
- Transportation Wants to Use Data to Predict Accidents and Make Roads Saferexternal icon, DALOOP, November 4, 2018
- The opportunities and challenges of data analytics in health careexternal icon, brookings.edu, November 1, 2018
October
- What it will take for big data to achieve its potential in healthcareexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, October 31, 2018
- CDC director Robert Redfield says pandemic flu is “very possible”, CBS News, October 30, 2018
- CDC director says polio-like illness acute flaccid myelitis “doesn’t appear to be transmissible”external icon, CBS News, October 29, 2018
- US health chief says overdose deaths beginning to level offexternal icon, AP News, October 24, 2018
- CDC says 63 more sick in ground beef recallexternal icon, NBC News, October 23, 2018
- Patient health data gathered via mobile apps could improve careexternal icon, Healio.com, October 23, 2018
- Tokenization Of Healthcare Data Could Revolutionize Industry’s Futureexternal icon, Forbes, October 23, 2018
- Should Healthcare Shift Toward A Blockchain-Based Efficiency Model?external icon, Forbes, October 22, 2018
- CDC investigating more cases of polio-like syndromeexternal icon, NBC News, October 22, 2018
- Individuals’ use of online medical records is on the riseexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 21, 2018
- FHIR supporters want feds to make the standard a requirementexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 19, 2018
- Investments in cloud computing to grow 50% in the next 4 yearsexternal icon, Health Data Management, October 19, 2018
September
- What the Experts Want Us to Know About Public Healthexternal icon, NYT’s TheUpshot, September 4, 2018
- Flu season is around the corner. Is your family prepared?external icon, CNN.com, September 4, 2018
August
- Nationwide prescription safety alert system proposed by House billexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, August 31, 2018
- Congo’s Ebola outbreak still spreading, with possible signs of hopeexternal icon, CNN.com, August 31, 2018
- Patient safety demands more robust testing of EHR usability, says Pewexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, August 30, 2018
- AI diagnostic tool plows through FDA clearance, but some experts not convincedexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, August 29, 2018
- How Facebook — yes, Facebook — might make MRIs fasterexternal icon, CNN Tech, August 20, 2018
- CDC awards ICF $20M health informatics and surveillance task orderexternal icon, Seeking Alpha, August 17, 2018
- Apple sees FHIR as way to liberate patient dataexternal icon, HealthData Management, August 9, 2018
- CDC finds big hike in number of women with opioid addiction delivering babiesexternal icon, Boston Globe, August 9, 2018
- ONC interop forum kicks off,external icon Politico Morning eHealth, August 6, 2018
- After tragedy hit Stark County, local officials and the CDC set up plans to prevent youth suicides, ABC/News5, August 7, 2018
- CDC examines risky teen behavior, Contemporary Pediatrics, August 7, 2018
- Public Trust in use of Big Data for Health Science ‘is vital’: Researchersexternal icon, European Pharmaceutical Review, August 7, 2018
- Zika’s Lingering Effectsexternal icon, US News, August 7, 2018
- Rural Health Disparities in HIV Testing Found in the United Statesexternal icon, Infectious Disease Advisor, August 7, 2018
- CDC: Use of Unapproved Opioid-Like Antidepressant on the Rise in the USexternal icon, Monthly Prescribing Reference, August 7, 2018
- HIV diagnoses down from last year, state health officials sayexternal icon, The Gazette, August 6, 2018
- Opioids Have Sparked An HIV Outbreak In Massachusettsexternal icon, Huffington Post, August 6, 2018
- New Ebola outbreak declared in the Congo, this time in a war zoneexternal icon, Axios, August 3, 2018
- Lessons from HIV/AIDS crisis can apply to the opioid crisisexternal icon, Newsday, August 2, 2017
- CDC: US meets fitness goal, but more work neededexternal icon, Healios, August 1, 2018
July
- CDC Addresses Need for Eye Care with New Surveillance Systemexternal icon, Pharmacy Time, July 25, 2018
- Disease surveillance innovations help defeat the poliovirusexternal icon, Reliefweb, July 23, 2018
- Diabetes May Increase Risk for Cancer, Especially for Womenexternal icon, Livescience, July 19, 2018
- Liver cancer death rates rise 43 percent in U.S., CDC reportsexternal icon, Chicago Tribune, July 17, 2018
June
- How Suicide Quietly Morphed Into a Public Health Crisisexternal icon, The New York Times, June 8, 2018
- NIH strategic plan seeks to keep pace with changes in data scienceexternal icon, Health Data Management, June 5, 2018
- Opioids Are Now Responsible for 1 in 5 Deaths Among Young Adultsexternal icon, Time.com, June 2, 2018
- A Guide to Differing Hurricane Death Tollsexternal icon, New York Times.com, June 2, 2018
- The Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in the United Statesexternal icon, JamaNetwork.com, June 1, 2018
- What’s killing America’s teens? Inside CDC’s new mortality reportexternal icon; AJC.com, June 1, 2018
May
- Two-thirds of patients with HIV had missed opportunities for PrEPexternal icon, Healio.com, May 31, 2018
- Outbreak prevention will be focus for new task forceexternal icon, The Packer, May 31, 2018
- CDC report examines Legionnaires’ at Illinois veterans homeexternal icon, AP news, May 30, 2018
- Multi-state Hepatitis A outbreak fueled by personal contact; rates for homeless, drug users soarexternal icon, The Washington Times, May 30, 2018
- How the Cherokee Nation Is Trying to Eliminate Hepatitis Cexternal icon, Healthcare.com, May 30, 2018
- Effects of E.coli Outbreak in Lettuce Ripple Through U.S. Food-Supply Chainexternal icon, The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2018
- CDC warns pools, hot tubs and water parks are hotbed for disease outbreaksexternal icon; AJC.com, May 22, 2018
- N.H. Senators Want EPA to Allow Release of PFC Health Risk Dataexternal icon, New Hampshire Public Radio, May 15, 2018
- FHIR information exchange capability now coming of ageexternal icon, HealthData Management, May 14, 2018
- Salmonella outbreak cases linked to massive Rose Acre egg recall climbs to 35external icon, Indianapolis Star, May 13, 2018
- Here’s What the Next Pandemic Pathogen Might Look Likeexternal icon, Live Science, May 12, 2018
- Medical examiners can now upload death certificates via – what else? – an appexternal icon, Concord Monitor, May 7, 2018
- CDC: Illnesses caused by ticks, mosquitoes, fleas have surgedexternal icon; Newsday, May 1, 2018
April
- Google’s parent aims to shape healthcare with AIexternal icon, Modern Healthcare, April 19, 2018
- Another company recalls kratom after illness reportedexternal icon, Food Safety News, April 19, 2018
- More illnesses reported in E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuceexternal icon, CNN.com
- CDC says addiction treatment, syringe service programs are key in preventing spread of Hep Cexternal icon; Beckley Register-Herald, April 18, 2018
- Endocarditis Joins HIV and Hepatitis Among Infections Related to Opioid Epidemicexternal icon, ContagionLive.com, April 18, 2018
- How is health care in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria? No one knows.external icon, WashingtonPost.com, April 18, 2018
- Intermountain study to link genomic data to clinical outcomesexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 18, 2018
- Senate bill calls for data, technology to combat opioid crisisexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 18, 2018
- 7 challenges physicians face accessing patient dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, April 18, 2018
February
- Can Technology Be The Magic Pill That Cures Health Care?external icon, Forbes, February 21, 2018
- Digital Bridge collaboration with Cerner, Epic, CDC and others hope to connect EHRs to public healthexternal icon, Healthcare It News, February 20, 2018
- How health authorities fight the spread of infectious diseases: Algorithm could help public health programs better locate, and treat, people living with undiagnosed infectious diseasesexternal icon, Science Daily, February 20, 2018
- Algorithm improves treatment of patients with spinal metastasesexternal icon, Health Data Management, February 20, 2018
- How biometrics is giving identities to ‘invisible citizens’external icon, CNN.com, February 19, 2018
- Analytics Part 1: Why Every Company Has a Big Data Problemexternal icon, Medium.com, February 19, 2018
- Fighting the flu? This technology tries to help you get well fasterexternal icon, USAToday.com, February 18, 2018
- The Flu Vaccine Is Working Better Than Expected, C.D.C. Findsexternal icon, The New York Times, February 15, 2018
- A Citizenship Question on the Census May Be Bad for Your Healthexternal icon, The New York Times, February 14, 2018
- Reference: Larry Page’s Wish To Make All Health Data Public Has Big Benefits — And Big Risksexternal icon, techcrunch.com, Mar 18, 2014
January
- Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhoneexternal icon, New York Times, January 24, 2018
- ONC: Artificial Intelligence Has Potential to Reshape Healthcareexternal icon, HealthIT Analytics, January 19, 2018
- Few physicians are fluent in data. New program aims to fix thatexternal icon, AMA Wire, January 16, 2018
- CDC wants to bring clinical guidelines into the ‘digital age’: 3 things to knowexternal icon, Becker’s Hospital Review, January 16, 2018
- Flu Closes Schools, Flusters Hospitals Nationwideexternal icon, ABC News, January 15, 2018
- CDC looks to bring its clinical guidance into the digital ageexternal icon, Fierce Healthcare, January 12, 2018
- The 2018 Flu Season Is Already a Deadly One. Here’s What You Can Still Do About Itexternal icon, Fortune, January 8, 2018
- These are the states where infant mortality is highestexternal icon, CNN.com, January 4, 2018
- Federal health officials head Monterey County, collecting local data to gauge the nation’s healthexternal icon, Monterey County Now, January 4, 2018
- CDC reports E. coli death; link to romaine investigatedexternal icon, The Packer, January 3, 2018
- ‘Raw Water’ Is a New Health Trend. But Is It Safe?external icon, Time.com, January 3, 2018
- Widespread Flu Activity Has Tripled in Two Weeksexternal icon, ContagionLive, January 3, 2018
- Epidemic of Opioid Abuse Is Top Health News of 2017external icon, Health, January 1, 2018
December
- Black victims of heroin, opioid crisis are ‘whitewashed’ out of picture, report findsexternal icon, Chicago Tribune, December 26, 2017
- Tracking the opioid crisis a challengeexternal icon, The Intelligencer, December 26, 2017
- How big tech is going after your health careexternal icon, The New York Times, December 26, 2017
- New Nevada Law to Begin Fast-Track Opioid Data Collectionexternal icon, U.S. News and World Report, December 26, 2017
- The man with a plan: on Ashok Alexander and Antara Foundationexternal icon, The Hindu, December 25, 2017
- Eastern Oregon health departments to target opioid abuseexternal icon, East Oregonian, December 25, 2017
- The opioid crisis is driving down US life expectancy, new data showsexternal icon, PBS News Hour, December 21, 2017
- Tech Alone Can’t Solve The Opioid Crisisexternal icon, Wired, December 21, 2017
- Drug overdoses contribute to drop in US life expectancyexternal icon, Washington Examiner, December 21, 2017
- Physician-Level Data May Not Reduce Opioid Prescription Ratesexternal icon, Health IT Analytics, December 18, 2017
- ‘Data Across Sectors for Health’ grantees in New York City, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Seattle
describe their workexternal icon, Healthcare Informatics, December 15, 2017 - How Do We Automate Population Health Management?external iconOpen Minds, December 14, 2017
- DHEC introduces Public Health Data Appexternal icon, WBTW.com, December 13, 2017
- Collaboration is the best strategy to combat population health concernsexternal icon, The Hill, December 13, 2017
- How HHS Gathered 300 Coders to Solve a Public Health Crisisexternal icon, Government CIO Magazine, December 12, 2017
- How to Put Data to Work in Your Neighborhoodexternal icon, Government Technology, December 12, 2017
- Massachusetts credits database with reducing opioid prescriptions by 30% external icon, Health Data Management, December 7, 2017
- CDC combats opioid crisis with health, prescription dataexternal icon, Health Data Management, December 6, 2017
- Why HIPAA shouldn’t be an impediment to public health data sharingexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 6, 2017
- The Promise And Danger Of Health Care’s Big Data Revolutionexternal icon, Huffington Post, December 5, 2017
- Google makes AI tool for precision medicine open sourceexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 5, 2017
- Education is key to getting patients to share electronic medical recordsexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 5, 2017
- HHS opioid code–a–thon seeks new technologies to help stem epidemicexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 4, 2017
- Post–Ebola ‘soul searching’ prompts the CDC to rethink data collection and clinical decision supportexternal icon, FierceHealthcare, December 1, 2017
- ONC Annual Meeting, Tackling Barriers to Interoperability and Usabilityexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, December 1, 2017
November
- How Opiods Started Killing Americansexternal icon, Bloomberg/Quint, November 28, 2017
- CDC Data Confirm Connection Between Student Heath and Academic Achievementexternal icon, Fayette Tribune, November 27, 2017
- 3 Challenges and Considerations for Measuring Population Health Successexternal icon, HIT Consultant, November 27, 2017
- The Biggest Interoperability Holdup? There’s No Business Case for Itexternal icon, Healthcare IT News, November 27, 2017
- Data Registry to Track Childhood Health, Illness Trendsexternal icon, Healthcare Informatics, November 26, 2017
- Amazon’s cloud is about to announce a huge health-care deal with Cerner, sources sayexternal icon, CNBC, November 22, 2017
- Five Reasons to Be Thankful for Healthcare Big Data Analyticsexternal icon, Health IT Analytics, November 21, 2017
- Insider Q&A: Health Data Helps Doctors Pick Drugsexternal icon, ABC News, November 19, 2017
- Ohio Valley Public Health Agencies Take Proactive Look at HIVexternal icon , The Intelligencer, November 18, 2017
- About 90% of Americans Don’t Eat Enough Fruits and Vegetablesexternal icon, Time, November 17, 2017
- Modern Health IT Infrastructure Key to Health Data Securityexternal icon, Health IT Infrastructure, November 17, 2017
- The Big Idea Behind Big Data,external icon Jefferson Public Radio, November, 17, 2017
- IBM Partners with the CDC to Bring Blockchains to Public Healthexternal icon, Nasdaq.com, November 16, 2017
- Fusion Genomics Turns to IBM Cloud to Help Support Advances Designed to Conquer Global Pandemicsexternal icon, Markets Insider, November 16, 2017
- Baker Calls For Improvements To Opioid Treatment And Prescribingexternal icon, WBUR, Common Health, November 15, 2017
- Teen suicide rate suddenly rises with heavy use of smartphones, social mediaexternal icon. The Washington Times, November 14, 2017
- Apple Watch Can Detect Hypertension And Sleep Apnea: Studyexternal icon, I4U News, November 14, 2017
- How HIT Can Impact Use of Social Determinants of Healthexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 14, 2017
- Wearable Devices to Gather Data for All of Us Initiativeexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 13, 2017
- How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracyexternal icon, The Guardian, November 11, 2017
- Data Analytics Can Drive Change in Health Careexternal icon, US News and World Report, November 11, 2017
- Social media data could transform public health, new book saysexternal icon, University of Colorado, November 9, 2017
- Big Data Resources for Public Healthexternal icon, Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburghexternal icon, November 7, 2017
- Embracing a Holistic Approach in Care Managementexternal icon, US News and World Report, November 2, 2017
- Commission calls for integrated data environment to combat opioid crisisexternal icon, Health Data Management, November 2, 2017
- How a Healthcare Data Scientist Can Aid in Value-based Careexternal icon, Tech Target, November 2017
- Report: Social Determinants: The Next Phase of Value-Based Innovationpdf iconexternal icon, RAM Technologies, Inc., November 2017
October
- Data Adds Detail, Meaning to Population Health Programsexternal icon, mHealth Intelligence, October 31, 2017
- How sensing technologies can reshape architecture, public health, and cities, external iconcom, October 30, 2017
- Using EHR Data to Automate Public Health Reporting, Analysisexternal icon Healthcare Informatics, October 26, 2017
- IBM Watson Health Signed Agreement with CDC to Research Blockchainexternal icon, Coinspeaker, October 26, 2017
- Machine Learning Detects Marketing and Sale of Opioids on Twitterexternal icon, Press Release University of California San Diego, October, 25, 2017
- Hottest Issues in Health Information Technology on Tap at 8th Annual Health IT Leadership Summit November 7, 2017external icon, Global Newswire, October 23, 2017
- The Importance Of Data Quality — Good, Bad Or Uglyexternal iconForbes, October 20, 2017
- Anatomy of an Opioid Overdose Outbreak: How One Georgia Doctor Sounded the Alarmexternal icon, NBC News, October 9, 2017
September
- Addressing The Gap In Noncommunicable Disease Data With Technology And Innovationexternal icon, September, 21, 2017
- Age matters when it comes to screening for cervical cancerexternal icon, Associated Press, September 12,2017
- Drug Overdoses Are Killing A Lot More People Than HIV Or Guns At Their Worstexternal icon, Huffington Post, September, 7,2017
- The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Yearsexternal icon, New York Times, September 2, 2017
August
- The Case For Sharing All Of America’s Data On Mosquitoesexternal icon, Huffington Post, Aug 29,2017
- Local public health is critical in fight against opioid addictionexternal icon, Times-Georgian, Aug 26, 2017
- Fitzgerald: CDC stands in defense against health threatsexternal icon, Times-Georgian, Aug 26, 2017
- Fitzgerald leading CDCexternal icon, Times-Georgian, Aug 26, 2017
- With Great Health Data Comes Great Potential for Biasexternal icon, Pacific Standard, August, 10, 2017
- Local Infectious Disease Response Efforts Receive $200 Million Boost from CDCexternal icon, Contagion Live
August 4, 2017
July
- 10 facts that sum up our nation’s health in 2017external icon , Public health matters, 13 July 2017
- Integrating Genomics into Public Health Surveillance: Ushering in a New Era of Precision Public Health, CDC Genomics and Health Impact Blog, July 19, 2017
June
- CDC Works to Improve Public Health Data Analytics, Surveillanceexternal icon, HealthIT Analytics, June 16, 2017
- CDC plans to improve public health data collection by moving to the cloud and accessing EHRsexternal icon, FierceHealthcare, June 14, 2017
- The Dawn Of Data-Driven Healthcareexternal icon, HealthITAnalytics, June 14, 2017, Webcastexternal icon by Intel
- Investigation of a Canine Parvovirus Outbreak using Next Generation Sequencingpdf iconexternal icon, APHL, June 11, 2017
- Which Healthcare Data is Important for Population Health Management?external icon, HealthIT Analytics, Junes 8, 2017
- Modernizing Public Health through Shared Servicesexternal icon, CSTE, June 6, 2017
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