Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Response (DCIPHER) Archives

Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Response (DCIPHER)

National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi speaks at the eHealth Exchange annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 15, 2022. (Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop)

HHS, health information networks expect rollout of trusted data exchange next year: Micky Tripathi

About 30% of hospitals remain unconnected to a health information network, but the implementation of network-to-network interoperability may change that.

Dec 22, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

Blood specimen collection tubes are seen in the laboratory of Bellville Medical Center, in Bellville, Texas, September 1, 2021. (Photo by FRANCOIS PICARD/AFP via Getty Images).

CDC awards Palantir consolidated disease surveillance contract worth $443M

Public health infrastructure the tech company deployed at the height of the pandemic is being scaled for generalize response to diseases like Monkeypox.

Dec 7, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

The David J. Sencer CDC Museum in Atlanta, Ga. (CDC photo)

CDC expands Palantir’s non-COVID disease surveillance contract again

Palantir continues to modernize the CDC's data infrastructure to perform genomic sequencing of disease variants and track them and their outcomes.

Apr 26, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

A view outside the New York Stock Exchange as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on September 30, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai / Getty Images)

Renewed Palantir contract could expand disease surveillance to other CDC centers

The COVID-19 pandemic has led agencies to move to cloud infrastructure to assist with disease surveillance.

Jun 10, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir