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Department of Health urges sustained funding for public-health data modernization; highlights HELMS and lab upgrades
Summary
Les Becker, chief of innovation and technology at the Department of Health, told the committee that many public-health systems are decades old, that HELMS and a laboratory information management system are key modernization priorities, and that sustained federal and state investments are needed for long-term operation and interoperability.
Les Becker, chief for the Office of Innovation and Technology at the Washington State Department of Health, briefed the committee on Feb. 5 about public-health data systems and modernization priorities.
Becker said public health uses many domain-specific systems — infectious disease, environmental health, chronic disease, laboratory reporting and emergency medical services — and that each has unique data needs and reporting requirements. He said many of the Department’s systems “are decades old” and that the pandemic highlighted constraints in scaling and aggregating data…
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