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										CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) is a comprehensive strategy designed to move public health from tracking threats to predicting them. Expanding on the work of CDC’s Surveillance Strategy, DMI is making a measurable difference in our nation’s ability both to respond to the current pandemic and to find and face any future public health threat.
Below are some key advancements in our progress.
complex threats graphicComplex threats expose gaps and prompt action
							Partners sound the alarm that public health data are “moving slower than disease”***Epidemics like opioids, suicide, and**EVALI**challenge public health’s capabilities***DMI urgent call graphic*Public Health Data Modernization Initiative* *(DMI)* launches with a vision of world class data and analyticsabstract landscape graphicCDC answers the urgent call
							Focus on core surveillancesystems improves early warning signals for biggest health threats
CDC releases open data site to share technology resources and foster innovation
New IT and Data Governance unifies CDC’s investments in modernization***For the first time, Congress dedicates $50M in FY 2020 to support data modernization***growing support image graphicGrowing support for modernization
							Data standards, such as FHIR®, and new federal policies push modernization forward
CDC expands data-ready innovation with healthcare, academic, and research partners
CDC awards first funding to states for data modernization and system interoperability
DMI lays out a strategic roadmap to guide modernization and evaluation***Volume and velocity of COVID-19 cases quickly overwhelms public health data systems***COVID graphicAnswering the pandemic
							Multiple CDC surveillance systems extend ability to track COVID-19
CDC rapidly onboards health departments to automate transmission of electronic laboratory reports
Huge leaps in electronic case reporting (eCR) automate real-time information exchange between thousands of healthcare facilities
Provisional COVID-19 death data and new data on excess deaths informs response
CDC and federal agencies stand up experimental datato track mental, social, and economic health
CDC integrates data from multiple core surveillance systems into COVID Tracker interface***Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act**designates $500M to support rapid modernization***image of chart Accelerating the strategy
							Accelerated investments and projects increase capacity to rapidly detect and respond to the pandemic
Assigned Implementation Leads align, coordinate, monitor, and measure progress toward future state
CDC expands programs for state-of-the-art data science, visualization, and informatics training
CDC and the U.S. Digital Service pilot pandemic-ready systems at state and local health departments***Congress dedicates $50 million in FY 2021 to continue data modernization activities.******The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act provides an additional $500 million to CDC to advance surveillance and analytics infrastructure, as well as to establish a forecasting center for emerging biological threats.***abstract imageExpanding our capabilities
							CDC built an immunization data lake to handle the massive COVID-19 vaccine roll-out and delivery.
CDC created a cloud-based platform to catalogue, analyze, and publish findings faster than previously possible.
Ongoing improvements to data collection and sharing improve health equity.
In August 2021, CDC stands up the new national Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.
New cloud-based and computational capabilities enable CDC to process millions of unique SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences.***Congress dedicates $100M in FY 2022 and $175M in FY 2023 to modernize public health data surveillance and analytics at CDC and state and local health departments.***Public Health Data Strategy, public health data goals and two-year milestonesCDC’s Moving Forward initiative stands up the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology to lead a first-ever Public Health Data Strategy.2022 DMI Snapshot: Transforming Data to Protect Health; Data, People, ProcessesThe 2022 DMI Snapshot captures the increasing impacts of transforming data to protect people’s health.path abstract graphicThe path to prevention
							Sustainable investments will ensure lifesaving prevention and response for COVID-19 and beyond
							
					
							Last Reviewed:  January 10, 2024						Source: 	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology
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