Projects
Fostering Shared Services Among Public Health Agencies for the Data Modernization Initiative
2023
Project Overview
Objective
To co-create strategies that increase public health agencies use of shared services and promote the development, ownership, and sustainability of the shared services they value most.
Project Motivation
The CDC Foundation wants to help public health partners advance their health data surveillance and technology infrastructure by moving to a shared services approach.
Prepared For
CDC Foundation
Mathematica is collaborating with state, tribal, local, and territorial entities to understand how they can incorporate shared services into their information technology strategy.
The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on public health data infrastructure challenges that have been around for decades. In alignment with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) North Star Architecture and Data Modernization Initiative, our work is driving the public health data infrastructure forward by centering on the importance of shared services.
Within the national public health workforce, each state, tribal, local, and territorial entity operates within a different landscape. All want to improve re-use, bring efficiency, and be cost effective in their data modernization work. Understanding the political and infrastructural demographics of governmental public health in each state and territory is crucial to developing innovative data solutions to make an impact for the public health workforce and the communities they serve.
In support of this goal, the CDC Foundation and Mathematica are working with state, tribal, local, and territorial entities to understand the value that shared services bring to public health organizations and learn and test the aspects of shared services implementation that will help them modernize their health data infrastructures.
Mathematica is employing a human-centered design design approach to 1) establish the value proposition for state, tribal, local, and territorial entities including developing a map of the current shared service ecosystem, 2) explore the state, tribal, local, and territorial entities’ experience planning, developing, and implementing shared services, and 3) develop and test concepts to identify the most desirable and feasible components of a shared services initiative.
Our approach to collaborative learning will help state, tribal, local, and territorial entities turn ideas into action.
Within the national public health workforce, each state, tribal, local, and territorial entity operates within a different landscape. All want to improve re-use, bring efficiency, and be cost effective in their data modernization work. Understanding the political and infrastructural demographics of governmental public health in each state and territory is crucial to developing innovative data solutions to make an impact for the public health workforce and the communities they serve.
In support of this goal, the CDC Foundation and Mathematica are working with state, tribal, local, and territorial entities to understand the value that shared services bring to public health organizations and learn and test the aspects of shared services implementation that will help them modernize their health data infrastructures.
Mathematica is employing a human-centered design design approach to 1) establish the value proposition for state, tribal, local, and territorial entities including developing a map of the current shared service ecosystem, 2) explore the state, tribal, local, and territorial entities’ experience planning, developing, and implementing shared services, and 3) develop and test concepts to identify the most desirable and feasible components of a shared services initiative.
Our approach to collaborative learning will help state, tribal, local, and territorial entities turn ideas into action.
Related Staff
Amy Wodarek O’Reilly
Principal Managing Consultant; Co-Lead, Health Human-Centered Design Practice
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