HHS 2013-05-22 14:44:07 90 Days 2012/08/21 2-1-status not-started in-progress completed select completed 2.1 false Engage with customers to identify at least two existing major customer-facing services that contain high-value data or content as first-move candidates to make compliant with new open data, content, and web API policy. 90 days 2012/08/21 2-1-1-customer-engagement-approach textarea HHS has collected more than 400 datasets at HealthData.gov. Heathdata.gov is the Department's flagship open data resource dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all. The site's inventory of datasets is growing by more than 100 sets annually and 35 of the sets are already API enabled. Our customer engagement includes both a blog (by our CTO) and a webpage in the Open Data section of our Digital Strategy site highlighting how those API-enabled databases are being utilized in the public domain. There is a direct Call for Action asking customers to recommend datasets that should be API-enabled and discuss how the information might be used. Customers are directed to healthdata.gov, where they are asked to suggest other health databases for inclusion. The list of databases from which customers are asked to make recommendations is detailed at www.healthdata.gov. Two APIs that we have recently made public are included below. 2.1.1 false 2.1 Paragraph on customer engagement approach 90 days 2012/08/21 2-1-2-name text HealthCare Finder API (http://healthdata.gov/data/dataset/healthcare-finder-api) HealthData.gov Catalog API (http://healthdata.gov/catalog-api) 2-1-2-description text All of the data used on the Finder.HealthCare.gov web application is available through the API. There are multiple collections of data available through the API including Public Options Data, Individual and Family Health Insurance Options Data, and Small Group Insurance Options Data. Visit http://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/open-data/index.html to learn more about this API. The HealthData.gov API is used to provide software developers with programmatic access to the contents of our data catalog. The API can be used to find recently added datasets, to search the catalog, to download the contents of the catalog for analysis, or to build a new data catalog tool. Visit http://www.healthdata.gov/catalog-api to learn more about this API. 2-1-2-scope internal external both select external both 2-1-2-customer text Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT 2-1-2-uii text 009-000004764 009-000004764 2.1.2 true 2.1 Prioritized list of systems (datasets) 90 Days 2012/08/21 7-1-status not-started in-progress completed select completed 7.1 false Engage with customers to identify at least two existing priority customer-facing services to optimize for mobile use. 90 days 2012/08/21 7-1-1-customer-engagement-approach textarea HHS has been carefully monitoring (through metrics) the growth in use of mobile devices to access web-based information, noting carefully the sites (and content within those sites) that are of greatest interest. As of May 2013, HHS has 25 websites that are mobile enabled (either m dot or responsive design) and the department has 32 mobile apps available. Customer engagement includes a blog and a Mobile section of our Digital Strategy site. Our existing mobile sites and mobile apps are all listed here: http://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/mobile/mobile-sites.html and here: http://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/mobile/mobile-apps.html There is a direct Call for Action asking customers to recommend additional websites for mobile enabling. HHS has chosen not to restrict what sites might be mobile enabled. Customers may nominate any site. Nominations will be factored along with metrics information on mobile activity to determine the Department's priorities. HHS is committed to making all new websites mobile-ready. Two mobile sites that we have recently made public are included below. 7.1.1 false 7.1 Paragraph on customer engagement approach 90 days 2012/08/21 7-1-2-name text Medicare.gov Million Hearts™ 7-1-2-description text Medicare.gov is the consumer website for Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers, and advocates. The implementation of responsive design on this site allows us to support traditional desktop PCs, tablets, and smartphones all from one URL and code base. Platforms: mobile website Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. Million Hearts™ brings together communities, health systems, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and private-sector partners from across the country to fight heart disease and stroke. Platforms: mobile website 7-1-2-scope internal external both select external external 7-1-2-customer text Public, Seniors, People with Disabilities, Health Care Providers, Caregivers, Families Individuals looking for information about assessing/reducing their risk for heart disease and stroke. 7-1-2-uii text 009-000001474 009-000275896 7.1.2 true 7.1 Prioritized list of systems (datasets) 6 months 2012/11/23 4-2-status not-started in-progress completed select in-progress 4-2-policy textarea The Department of Health and Human Services has had formal web governance, issued by the Secretary, sine 2006. The Department's Web Council undertook revision and modernization in 2011. That effort was put on hiatus when it became apparent that the forthcoming Federal Digital Strategy would embrace governance, possibly taking it to new directions. Now, with Digital Strategy guidance in hand, HHS has resumed work. The revised governance being written today is significantly different in that it not only expands the existing Web Governance to embrace the breadth of digital communications, but also, for the first time, embraces the management of Information Technology investment. HHS Governance is expressed as a set of over-arching Principles which are then implemented through a more dynamic (living document) Management Plan. The Principles are being written by the HHS Web Council (digital governance) and the Administration and Management Domain/Information Technology Steering Committee (IT investment) for presentation to the HHS Secretary for adoption. We expect to take public comment as part of our process. 4-2-link text 4.2 false Establish an agency-wide governance structure for developing and delivering digital services 6 months 2012/11/23 5-2-status not-started in-progress completed select completed 5.2 false Develop an enterprise-wide inventory of mobile devices and wireless service contracts 6 months 2012/11/23 5-2-1-component text Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration Health Resources and Services Administration Indian Health Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institutes of Health Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administration for Children and Families Administration for Community Living Departmental Management Program Support Center Office of the Inspector General 5-2-1-inventory-status not-started in-progress completed select completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed 5.2.1 true 5.2 Develop wireless and mobile inventory 8 months 2013/1/22 8-2-status not-started in-progress completed select in-progress 8.2 false Implement performance and customer satisfaction measuring tools on all .gov websites 8 months 2013/1/22 8-2-1-tool yes no select no 8-2-1-implementation textarea HHS has a well-established metrics and analytics program predating GSA's Digital Analytics Program (DAP). As early adopters, we pride ourselves in moving beyond metrics (the gathering of data) to the formulation of a robust program which analyzes metrics in combination with our complementary customer satisfaction data (see 8.2.2) to generate specific recommendations for the improvement of web content and other digital platforms. Our end goal is to significantly improve customer experience on our digital platforms. Since the DAP implementation instructions were released on October 2012, the HHS-ASPA Digital Team has been working with OMB and GSA to address issues surrounding how DAP integrates with our legacy program. We are currently implementing the DAP code on one of the HHS priority websites managed by the HHS Digital Communications Division to test the integration of the DAP with our legacy analytics tools. We will work with the GSA/DAP team to address any issues identified from the testing and will of course share our findings with others who may be integrating DAP with legacy systems. 8-2-1-percent text 0.869 (1 domain) 8-2-1-url text N/A 8.2.1 false 8.2 Implement performance measurement tool 8 months 2013/1/22 8-2-2-implementation textarea HHS some time ago developed a “Voice of Consumer” (VOC) tool which is deployed on many of our priority websites. We use the information gathered by this tool to make improvements to the sites. In the spirit of shared resources as outlined in the Digital Strategy, HHS has offered to make this tool, including its back-end reporting, available at no cost to all federal agencies. Code is being made open source. Ironically, our ability to use our VOC tool more widely is limited by OMB's so-called :fast-track” survey question approval process. OMB will only consider one website survey at a time, even if identical questions are to be used on multiple websites. Approval can take up to a month. At this rate, it will take HHS years to add customer surveys to all Departmental websites. 8-2-2-url text www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/people-first/voice-of-consumer-tool.html 8.2.2 false 8.2 Implement customer satisfaction tool 12 months 2013/05/23 1-2-status not-started in-progress completed select completed 1.2 false Ensure all new IT systems follow the open data, content, and web API policy and operationalize agency.gov/developer pages 6 months 2012/11/23 1-2-1-description textarea HHS promotes transparency, collaboration, and participation through the Open Government Plan Version 2.0 (http://www.hhs.gov/open/plan/opengovernmentplan/index.html), released in April 2012. The Open Government Plan is a revised version of the 2010 Open Government Plan (http://www.hhs.gov/open/plan/opengovernmentplan/openplanversion1_1.pdf), which released strategic datasets publicly. HHS holds vast warehouses of health data and information, and aggressively works to provide easy access to these collections. We provide almost four hundred datasets through healthdata.gov (http://www.healthdata.gov/dataset/search?f%5b0%5d=sm_ckan_media_format%3AAPI). Thirty-four of these databases are already API-enabled. The inventory continues to grow by almost 100 datasets per year. Activities to Publish and Promote Data Assets HHS programs support and maintain databases for a breadth of activities, including: • Research • Program management • Health and human services delivery • Training • Education Additionally, new policies and activities are increasing our capability to support data transparency, including statutory and regulatory authorities that create pathways for new data products and services. In 2010, HHS launched the Health Data Initiative (http://www.hhs.gov/open/initiatives/hdi/index.html) with the Institute of Medicine. The initiative: • Increases and improves data clarity • Promotes making data resources available • Publishes new or enhanced datasets and tools to Healthdata.gov • Syndicates resources at https://syndication.hhs.gov/ • Encourages health data use through innovative programs and projects This project was a flagship of the first Open Government Plan and was renewed with the Open Government Plan Version 2.0. Enhancing Data Quality and Usability HHS is considering better ways to manage, store, retrieve, and collect data resources. This will assist with the pace of data growth, data sources complexity, and the immense data holdings across HHS. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) participates in the National Big Data Core Technology Solicitation. This group promotes the research, development, and application of tools across the federal government, including: • Data acquisition • Archival • Retrieval • Visualization • Integration • Interoperability NIH also established a data and informatics working group to address the rapid growth of datasets. This focused activity on open data during FY13 and FY14 will build on the Health Data Initiative's successes in modernizing data and information across HHS. 1.2.1 false 1.2 Document policy for architecting new IT systems for openness by default 17 months 2013/10/23 1-2-3-datasets-in-inventory text 1-2-3-systems-in-inventory text 1-2-3-datasets-potential-public text 1-2-3-datsets-listed text 1-2-3-released-datasets-listed text 1.2.3 false 1.2 Operationalize Enterprise Data Inventory 12 months 2013/05/23 2-2-status not-started in-progress completed select completed 2.2 false Make high-value data and content in at least two existing, major customer-facing systems available through web APIs, apply metadata tagging and publish a plan to transition additional high-value systems 12 months 2013/05/23 2-2-1-describe textarea Two Highlighted Cases HealthCare Finder API One of the largest API-enabled databases is the HealthCare Finder (http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/healthcare-finder-api), which provides information on public and private health insurance plans. This API has been particularly successful with entrepreneurs in the private sector. U.S. News & World Report uses it to help consumers find the best health insurance plans (http://health.usnews.com/health-insurance) for their specific needs. It provides the data the magazine's application sort through to rate plans based on coverage and costs, both monthly and out-of-pocket. Health Indicators Warehouse API The Health Indicators Warehouse–another example of an API-enabled database–offers users access to community health statistics from around the county. It brings together quality health measurements from various offices and programs in a single, user-friendly data source for national, state, and community health information. The Health Indicators Warehouse API (http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/health-indicators-warehouse) lets users: • Identify health trends over time • Filter data by geographic area, disease/condition, demographics, or initiative This allows users to link changes in health indicators with interventions and treatment programs. Such evidence-based research was not possible before the Warehouse was established. Future Plans Integrating data and information services across HHS will be a priority initiative in 2014. Through this work we will build on past successes, like the HealthCare Finder and Health Indicators Warehouse, to create new opportunities for the public to access health data. As we look to the future, we will also renew our commitment to improving the quantity, quality and usability of the data we publish. 2.2.1 false 2.1 Publish plan on future activity 12 months 2013/05/23 2-2-2-system text HealthCare Finder API Health Indicators Warehouse API Healthdata.gov Catalog API Home Health Compare Nursing Home Compare ClinicalTrials.gov API Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) Dialysis Facility Compare Genetics home reference TOXNET PubChem MedlinePlus Health Topic Web Service DailyMed CDC WONDER: Population (from Census) CDC WONDER: Mortality- Infants Death Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) ChemSpell Entrez Programming Utilities (E-Utilities) PubChem Power User Gateway (PUG) RxNorm RxTerms Semantic Knowledge Representation (SKR) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Terminology Services API DIRLINE MetaMap Pillbox Beta National Drug File - Reference Terminology Hospital Compare MedlinePlus Health Topic XML Files TXT4Tots Message Library - English National Institute on Drug Abuse Use Screening Tool API 2-2-2-description textarea All of the data used on the Finder.HealthCare.gov web application is available through the API. There are multiple collections of data available through the API including Public Options Data, Individual and Family Health Insurance Options Data, and Small Group Insurance Options Data. Data sets contain National, Hospital Referral Region, and State level information on Medicare's Aged Fee-for-Service Population. Information includes Chronic Condition and Disease Prevalence, Population Characteristics, Health Care Utilization, and Quality Indicators. The HealthData.gov API is used to provide software developers with programmatic access to the contents of our data catalog. The API can be used to find recently added datasets, to search the catalog, to download the contents of the catalog for analysis, or to build a new data catalog tool. The data provided includes demographics, Medicare-certified services, quality measures, state averages for measures, and zip codes in which each home health agency has provided services to. The data used to calculate the quality measures will be refreshed the third month of each quarter and represent a rolling 12 months of data. Demographic data is refreshed monthly while quality measures are refreshed the first month of each quarter. In order to ease the downloading process, the data have been divided into 5 separate databases. About the Nursing Home About the Nursing Home Inspection Results About the Nursing Home Residents About the Nursing Home Staff About the Nursing Home Ratings Provides information on clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. WONDER online databases include county-level Compressed Mortality (death certificates) since 1979; county-level Multiple Cause of Death (death certificates) since 1999; county-level Natality (birth certificates) since 1995; county-level Linked Birth / Death records (linked birth-death certificates) since 1995; state & large metro-level United States Cancer Statistics mortality (death certificates) since 1999; state & large metro-level United States Cancer Statistics incidence (cancer registry cases) since 1999; state and metro-level Online Tuberculosis Information System (TB case reports) since 1993; state-level Sexually Transmitted Disease Morbidity (case reports) since 1984; state-level Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system (adverse reaction case reports) since 1990; county-level population estimates since 1970. The WONDER web server also hosts the Data2010 system with state-level data for compliance with Healthy People 2010 goals since 1998; the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System weekly provisional case reports since 1996; the 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System weekly death reports since 1996; the Prevention Guidelines database (book in electronic format) published 1998; the Scientific Data Archives (public use data sets and documentation); and links to other online data sources on the "Topics" page. Collection period for the measures: 1. Patients With Anemia That Wasn't Controlled and 2. Patients Who Had Enough Wastes Removed From Their Blood During Dialysis (Dialysis Adequacy) is calendar year 2007. Collection period for the measure Patient Survival is January 2004 to December 2007. Demographic data is refreshed the second month of each quarter while quality measures are refreshed yearly in November. The National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes responsible for those conditions. A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. PubChem is integrated with Entrez, NCBI's primary search engine, and also provides compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features. A search-based Web service that provides access to disease, condition and wellness information via MedlinePlus health topic data in XML format. The service accepts keyword searches as requests and returns relevant MedlinePlus health topics in ranked order. The service also returns health topics summaries, search result snippets and other associated data. The DailyMed RESTful API is a web service for accessing current SPL information. It is implemented using HTTP and can be thought of as a collection of resources, specified as URLs. The Population online databases contain data from the US Census Bureau. The Census Estimates online database contains county-level population counts for years 1970 - 2000. The data comprise the April 1st Census counts for years 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000, the July 1st intercensal estimates for years 1971-1979 and 1981-1989, and the July 1st postcensal estimates for years 1991-1999. The Census Projections online database contains population projections for years 2004-2030 by year, state, age, race and sex, produced by the Census Bureau in 2005. The data are produced by the United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. The Mortality - Infant Deaths (from Linked Birth / Infant Death Records) online databases on CDC WONDER provide counts and rates for deaths of children under 1 year of age, occurring within the United States to U.S. residents. Information from death certificates has been linked to corresponding birth certificates. Data are available by state and county of mother's residence, child's age at death, year of death, underlying cause of death (ICD-10 codes for years 1999 and later, ICD-9 codes for years 1995-1998), gender, birth weight, birth plurality, birth order, birthplace, method of delivery, birth attendant, gestational age at birth, period of prenatal care, maternal race and ethnicity, maternal age, maternal education and marital status. Data are available since 1995. The data are produced by the National Center for Health Statistics. The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families. The ChemSpell Web Service API provides chemical name spell checking and chemical name synonym look-up. ChemSpell contains more than 1.3 million chemical names related to organic, inorganic, pharmaceutical, toxicological, and environmental health topics. ChemIDplus is the source for ChemSpell. When a chemical name is entered, ChemSpell returns a list of chemical synonyms if the spelling is correct. If the spelling is incorrect, it returns a list of suggestions for alternate spellings. The Entrez Programming Utilities (E-utilities) are a set of eight server-side programs that provide a stable interface into the Entrez query and database system at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The E-utilities use a fixed URL syntax that translates a standard set of input parameters into the values necessary for various NCBI software components to search for and retrieve the requested data. The E-utilities are therefore the structured interface to the Entrez system, which currently includes 38 databases covering a variety of biomedical data, including nucleotide and protein sequences, gene records, three-dimensional molecular structures, and the biomedical literature. The PubChem Power User Gateway (PUG) provides access to PubChem services via a programmatic interface. The basic design principle is straightforward. There is a single CGI (pug.cgi, referred to hereafter as simply PUG) that is the central gateway to multiple PubChem functions. PUG takes no URL arguments; all communication with PUG is through XML. To perform any request, one formulates input in XML and then HTTP POST it to PUG. The CGI interprets your incoming request, initiates the appropriate action, then returns results (also) in XML format. RxNorm provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software. There are two RxNorm APIs (SOAP/WSDL and RESTful) available to provide developers with functions for retrieving RxNorm data from the most current RxNorm data set. Data can be returned in XML or JSON. RxTerms is a drug interface terminology derived from RxNorm for prescription writing or medication history recording (e.g. in e-prescribing systems, PHRs). There RxTerms API provides developers with functions for retrieving RxTerms data from the most current RxTerms data set. The API uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in XML and JSON. This Java-based API to the Semantic Knowledge Representation (SKR) Scheduler facility was created to provide users with the ability to programmatically submit jobs to the Scheduler Batch and Interactive facilities instead of using the web-based interface. The SKR Project was initiated at NLM in order to develop programs to provide usable semantic representation of biomedical free text by building on resources currently available at the library. Database of key terminology, classification and coding standards, and associated resources to promote creation of more effective and interoperable biomedical information systems and services, including electronic health records. This set of files and software brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems. Users can use the UMLS to enhance or develop applications, such as electronic health records, classification tools, dictionaries and language translators. DIRLINE API offers a RESTful Web Service API that allows users to search the DIRLINE database with keywords. DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. This information may not be readily available in bibliographic databases. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided. MetaMap is a highly configurable program developed by Dr. Alan (Lan) Aronson at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to map biomedical text to the UMLS Metathesaurus or, equivalently, to discover Metathesaurus concepts referred to in text. MetaMap uses a knowledge-intensive approach based on symbolic, natural-language processing (NLP) and computational-linguistic techniques. Besides being applied for both IR and data-mining applications, MetaMap is one of the foundations of NLM's Medical Text Indexer (MTI) which is being used for both semiautomatic and fully automatic indexing of biomedical literature at NLM. Pillbox enables rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules) based on physical characteristics and high-resolution images. Once a medication is identified, Pillbox provides links to drug information and drug labels. Pillbox and the data provided by this API are currently under development and are not intended for clinical use. This data is presented as part of a research and development effort. The National Drug File-Reference Terminology (NDF-RT), developed by the Veterans Health Administration, provides clinical information about medications, including therapeutic intent, mechanism of action, physiologic effect and drug-drug interactions. Developers can use the API to retrieve data from the NDF-RT. The API uses both REST and SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML and JSON. The data provided includes process of care, mortality, and readmission quality measures. The collection period for the measures is generally 12 months. However, some measures may be based upon fewer than 12 months. Generally, the Hospital Compare quality measures are refreshed the third month of each quarter. XML files containing information resources on diseases, conditions and wellness issues. MedlinePlus produces three types of health topic XML files – MedlinePlus health topic XML, MedlinePlus compressed health topic XML (.zip format) and MedlinePlus health topic group XML. Each file covers both English and Spanish health topics and health topic groups from MedlinePlus. DTDs are included. NOTE - This dataset is updated daily, every Tuesday-Saturday. TXT4Tots is a library of short, evidence-based messages focused on nutrition and physical activity. The library is targeted to parents and caregivers of children, ages 1-5 years, and is available in English and Spanish. Content for the messages was derived from American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children and Adolescents, which uses a developmentally based approach to address children's health needs in the context of family and community. This tool guides clinicians through a series of questions to identify risky substance use in their adult patients. The accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and arranging for specialty care, where necessary, using the 5 As of intervention. 2-2-2-scope internal external both select external both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both external 2-2-2-customers text Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community health policy researchers and the media health policy researchers and the media patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community health policy researchers and the media Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community health policy researchers and the media Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community Public, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers, Health IT Community This tool targets health care providers and medical clinicians with possible Electronic Health Record integration if they so desire. 2-2-2-uii text 009-000004764 009-000001474 009-000004764 009-000001474 009-000001474 009-000002064 009-000001388 009-000001474 009-000002059 009-000001306 009-000002051 009-000002049 009-000002049 009-000001388 009-000001388 009-000002055 009-000001306 009-000002058 009-000002051 009-000002065 009-000002065 009-000002065 009-000002065 009-000001306 009-000002065 009-000001306 009-000002065 009-000001474 009-000002049 009-000004764 NIDA does not report these investments as IT investments, therefore there are no UIIs for this. This work was done as part of our research and research dissemination contracts with the web portions a small component of these contracts. 2-2-2-url text http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/healthcare-finder-api http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/health-indicators-warehouse http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/healthdatagov-catalog-api http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/home-health-compare http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/nursing-home-compare http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/clinicaltrialsgov-linking-patients-medical-research http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/wide-ranging-online-data-epidemiologic-research-wonder http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/dialysis-facility-compare http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/genetics-home-reference http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/toxnet http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/pubchem http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/medlineplus-health-topic-web-service http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/dailymed-webservices http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/cdc-wonder-population-census-0 http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/cdc-wonder-mortality-infants-death http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/basic-local-alignment-search-tool-blast http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/chemspell http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/entrez-programming-utilities-e-utilities http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/pubchem-power-user-gateway-pug http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/rxnorm http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/rxterms http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/semantic-knowledge-representation-skr http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/unified-medical-language-system-umls-terminology-services-api http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/dirline http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/metamap http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/pillbox-beta http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/national-drug-file-reference-terminology http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/hospital-compare http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/medlineplus-health-topic-xml-files-0 http://www.healthdata.gov/data/dataset/txt4tots-message-library-english http://www.drugabuse.gov/developers 2.2.2 true 2.1 Make 2+ systems (datasets) available via web APIs with metadata tags 12 months 2013/05/23 5-3-status not-started in-progress completed select in-progress 5-3-policy textarea HHS is currently in the process of establishing a Vendor Management Office (VMO) which will be in charge of evaluating government-wide contract vehicles in the alternatives analysis for all new mobile-related procurements. Vendor Management is an acquisition practice used to manage and optimize an organization's portfolio of acquisition vehicles to provide both cost savings and cost avoidance, and to improve satisfaction with contractor services and performance. HHS will establish a Vendor Management Organization (VMO) to streamline IT acquisition established for Agencies in the Federal CIO's IT Reform 25-Point Plan. To do so, HHS will take the following steps: 1. Develop a HHS definition of Vendor Management and VMO that can be agreed upon by the Associate Secretary for Administration (ASA), and the Associate Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR), and other key stakeholders in the IT and Acquisition communities and reach agreement on a number of issues surrounding Vendor Management which include Roles and responsibilities, Goals and Objectives, and integration with existing business processes and practices at HHS. 2. Hold a series of facilitated, structured, and decisional meetings with Senior Managers and Executives, and other key stakeholders that will lead to agreement on roles, responsibilities, goals, objectives, and integration with existing business processes at HHS. 3. Develop a pilot VMO and, in parallel, develop a VMO Business Case with at least three alternatives proposing approaches to developing and maintaining a VMO at HHS. 4. Review existing contracts for consolidation into existing government-wide procurement vehicles or into new Enterprise Agreements. Vendor Management will enable HHS to control costs, drive service excellence and mitigate risks to gain increased value from their vendors. This will allow HHS optimally develop, manage and control vendor contracts, relationships and performance for the efficient delivery of contracted products and services. 5.3 false Evaluate the government-wide contract vehicles in the alternatives analysis for all new mobile-related procurements 12 months 2013/05/23 6-3-status not-started in-progress completed select completed 6-3-policy textarea Technology changes rapidly. Today, the federal government must provide information across a growing number of platforms with limited resources. Federal workers and the American people increasingly expect to access accurate information from anywhere, at anytime, on any device. HHS is modernizing the Department's digital services though technical improvements, coordination, and improved customer service. These strategies are not new to the Department and they are already being practiced at all levels within HHS. HHS approach: • Ensuring Our Sites Are Optimized for Mobile: In August 2012, HHS offered 12 websites optimized for mobile and 25 mobile health applications. As of April 2013, we offer 25 mobile websites and 30 mobile applications. Highlights of mobile implementations launched during this period include: o Medicare.gov: Medicare.gov is the consumer website for Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers, and advocates. The implementation of responsive design on this site allows us to support traditional desktop PCs, tablets, and smartphones all from one URL and code base. o MillionHearts.gov: Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. Million Hearts™ brings together communities, health systems, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and private-sector partners from across the country to fight heart disease and stroke. The site is offered in responsive design. • Collecting Qualitative Customer Satisfaction Data with the Voice-of-Consumer (VOC) Tool: The VOC tool, developed in-house, allows HHS to create site-wide and page-level customer surveys and polls. HHS uses site-level surveys to collect qualitative data for overall customer engagement on our websites. HHS also uses page-level surveys to determine whether content on a particular page is useful. With this information we can make data-driven decisions to improve the Department's digital offerings on an ongoing basis. • Making Content Mobile-Ready: HHS uses plain language, bulleted lists, and clear headings to make sure content is scannable and easy to read and understand. We create content using an inverted pyramid and the bite/snack/meal approach to content development. This approach involves placing most important information at the top of the page, followed by the details. his allows small-screen users to get summary information quickly and dig in to the details if needed. Opportunely, this style serves desktop users better as well. • Revisiting our Visual Approach: HHS is reworking how we use images in billboards and body copy of text on webpages themselves. This new approach is based on metrics and how well images play in mobile environments. By using less “fluff” imagery and more meaningful infographics, we are able to tell more convincing stories. Well designed infographics allow us to explain a lot in a little space, making verbose content unnecessary. This approach was successfully applied to the budget rollout (http://www.hhs.gov/secretary/index.html) by using a short infographic to highlight how the 2014 budget will create a healthier America. This infographic was shared hundreds of times on social media and was a successful way to simplify the complex topic of fiscal policy. • Organizing Content around Topics: HHS has 29 Operating and Staff Divisions, but that doesn't mean digital information should be divided in the same way. The public doesn't care which unit produced a report or owns a topic, so we are building topic-based websites to better serve the American public. For example, in fall 2012, we launched BeTobaccoFree.gov which provides consumers with one-stop access to tobacco-related Web content from across the HHS family. Currently we maintain 37 topic based websites on everything from Alzheimer's (http://www.alzheimers.gov/) to vaccines (http://www.vaccines.gov/). Our goal, in addition to providing one-stop consumer access, is to reduce the overall number of websites. Unfortunately, the proposed new dot gov domain policy works against topical website consolidation. The prohibition against new dot gov domains (i.e, TopicX.gov) is a serious obstacle to the creation of topical sites that cross federal boundaries. FoodSafety.gov, which is co-managed by HHS and USDA, would not be possible under the proposed policy. • Tagging content: By building tagging systems into our content, we ensure that it can be used in a lot of different environments – on mobile devices, in responsive design layouts, in social media, Application Program Interfaces, Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, etc. and, of course, on our webpages. Impact on Performance Goals A comprehensive list of the HHS Performance Goals can be located at: Agency performance goals: http://www.hhs.gov/budget/performance-appendix-fy2013.pdf Improving the digital services we provide customers advance many of our performance goals, including: • Reducing Foodborne Illnesses: http://www.foodsafety.gov/ is undergoing a metrics-driven homepage refresh. After a number of months of focus group based usability testing, reviewing analytics reports and comparative A/B testing the team is moving into the final phases of refreshing the home page. A Visual Website Optimizer tool is being applied to this project so multiple design options can be tested. The proposed changes and subsequent 10-week testing plan aim to resolve usability issues and ultimately help our deliver high-value content that will decrease the incidence of food borne illness across the nation. • Reducing Tobacco Use: The website http://betobaccofree.hhs.gov/ launched in November 2012. This site brings together the best tobacco-related information from across HHS. In the spirit of the Digital Government Strategy, it provides consumers with one-stop access to more than 120 different collections of tobacco-related Web content from across the federal family. HHS provides content in a range of formats, including text, video, audio, and infographics. This allows visitors to use several learning methods. The site uses responsive design, so it resizes automatically to any screen size, from desktop to tablet to smartphone. • Strengthen Health Care: The website HeathCare.gov is being rebuilt using reliable and secure open source tools. Our code will be made available to the public on GitHub. Structured content and open data will power the new HealthCare.gov. As a result, the uninsured will be able to have a seamless experience from learning about the Marketplace to signing up to eligibility and ultimately coverage in the Health Insurance Marketplace. All content will be sharable and reusable, made available through an API. 6.3 false Ensure all new digital services follow digital services and customer experience improvement guidelines 12 months 2013/05/23 7-2-status not-started in-progress completed select completed 7-2-policy textarea HHS works to deliver the information the public needs where they need it, anytime, anywhere, on any device. According to estimates by Microsoft (http://tag.microsoft.com/community/blog/t/the_growth_of_mobile_marketing_and_tagging.aspx), there were more than 100 million smartphone users at the end of 2012. Experts predict that by 2014 most Web browsing will take place from a mobile device. This will put desktop browsing in the same category as landlines, music CDs, and TV without built-in recording capabilities. HHS is using m.dot-websites, responsive design implementations, and applications to meet the public in the palm of its hand. Two Highlighted Cases Million Hearts™ In early 2012, CDC worked with teams across HHS to launch the Million Hearts™ website (http://millionhearts.hhs.gov/index.html). That summer, we released a second phase of the site which uses responsive design. Implemented in multiple phases, millionhearts.hhs.gov was built with both desktop and mobile devices in mind from the start. This allowed the developers to deploy responsive design much faster. Million Hearts™ was CDC's first opportunity to work in responsive design. Through the project, the the Million Hearts™ team accomplished several components of the Digital Strategy: 1. Mobile: the Million Hearts™ website is the first operated by HHS to be build from the ground up with mobile in mind. Many lessons learned were developed from this experience and continue to be applied across the Department. 2. People First: Heart health and high blood pressure are persistent concerns among Hispanic/Latino groups. To better serve this population the Million Hearts™ offers a Spanish version of the site that was developed with the help of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health to ensure the cultural integrity of the content. 3. Working Better: the Million Hearts™ website is the first of the CDC's “one web” implementations. Currently the agency operates desktop and ‘m.dot' versions of its eponymous website CDC.gov. With the knowledge gained from launching Million Hearts™ in responsive design, the Agency is in the process of updating the CDC website to be a single responsive design site. Medicare.gov Medicare.gov is the consumer website for Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers, and advocates. In 2012, the site underwent an upgrade, moving it into a new content management system. After seeing the opportunities it offered, the site's developers used that opportunity to implement responsive design. The updated site launched in September 2012. This redesign meets three major components of the Digital Strategy for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): 1. Mobile: The redesign was CMS' first full dive into mobile-friendly web design. 2. Working Better: The migration of Medicare.gov to the Percussion content management system means that for the first time, all of CMS' manages all of its public websites in the same system. This greatly increases efficiencies and allows them to reuse the same management processes across all of their websites. 3. People First: The redesign fully embraced the principles of good Web management and governance (http://www.howto.gov/web-content/manage). It is the result of more than two years of research, design, and development work by CMS. Using call center questions, website analytics, and online survey results, CMS identified top user tasks including finding out what Medicare covers, cost and coordination of benefits information, and finding Medicare drug and health plans. Future Plans For many, mobile devices are now their main or only experience of Web-based content and functionality. And while mobile is quickly becoming the primary way people access the Internet, it is a profoundly different medium from the Web as we have known it on desktop and laptop computers. The mobile Web offers different interfaces, content, interactivity, and context than traditional desktop browsing. Mobile defines the nature of the Web experience and Web properties for these users, and will have an enormous impact on how HHS presents itself online. It is likely that all future Web designs and redesigns will begin as Million Hearts™ did, with a mobile site concept that is expanded to create the larger-screen portal. In response to this change, HHS is taking a mobile first approach to its work. Upcoming mobile Web implementations include: • FY13: o Heathcare.gov o GirlsHeath.gov o Usability.gov o The National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health (http://www.nimh.nih.gov) • FY14: o Women.Smokefree.gov o Vaccines.gov o WomensHealth.gov o GlobalHealth.gov o The Office of Population Affairs, HHS (http://www.hhs.gov/opa) o The National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov) o The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (http://www.niaid.nih.gov) o The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (http://www.ninds.nih.gov) o The Intramural Research Program (http://irp.nih.gov) o The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health (http://nccam.nih.gov) o The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health (http://www.nigms.nih.gov) o The Office of Disease Prevention, National Institutes of Health (http://prevention.nih.gov) o The Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (http://ods.od.nih.gov/) 7.2 false Optimize at least two existing priority customer-facing services for mobile use and publish a plan for improving additional existing services 12 months 2013/05/23 7-2-1-name text Million Hearts™ Medicare.gov BeTobaccoFree.gov Heathfinder.gov Office of Inspector General National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Solve the Outbreak Application AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Eldercare.gov HHS.gov/DigitalStrategy National Library of Medicine Mobile Web App CDC Influenza (Flu) Application My Dietary Supplements (MyDS) MyMedList (MML) Application PubMed AIDS.gov drugabuse.gov teens.drugabuse.gov 7-2-1-description textarea Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the United States. Million Hearts™ brings together communities, health systems, nonprofit organizations, federal agencies, and private-sector partners from across the country to fight heart disease and stroke. Platforms: mobile website Medicare.gov is the consumer website for Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers, and advocates. The implementation of responsive design on this site allows us to support traditional desktop PCs, tablets, and smartphones all from one URL and code base. Platforms: mobile website BeTobaccoFree.gov brings together the best tobacco-related information from across HHS. It provides consumers with one-stop access to more than 120 different federal sources of tobacco-related Web content. Platforms: mobile website The public's source for reliable health information from the Federal government. Offering quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, and tips and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy. Platforms: mobile website The HHS OIG is the largest inspector general's office in the Federal Government, with more than 1,700 employees dedicated to combating fraud, waste and abuse and to improving the efficiency of HHS programs. A majority of the OIG's resources goes toward the oversight of Medicare and Medicaid. Platforms: mobile website Home Page of NIEHS, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which conducts basic research on environmental health and environment-related diseases. Links to information on programs, grants, research, events, contracts, employment, training, outreach events, public information. Platforms: mobile website You may not be a disease detective, but now you can play one at home. This game allows users to run through fictional outbreaks and make decisions: Do you quarantine the village? Talk to people who are sick? The game offers a great way to take the study of epidemiology outside the classroom. Platforms: iPad The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality created the Health Care Innovations Exchange to speed the implementation of new and better ways of delivering health care. The Innovations Exchange supports the Agency's mission to improve the quality of health care and reduce disparities. Platforms: mobile website The Eldercare Locator, a public service of the Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a nationwide service that connects older Americans and their caregivers with information on senior services. Platforms: mobile website HHS uses this website to engage the public, report progress on the implementation of the Digital Government Strategy, showcase digital strategy best practices, and test new technology and tools. Visit http://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/ to learn more. Platforms: mobile website This inventory of all the mobile assets offered by the National Library of Medicine includes both web and applications driven items. The app itself was created in HTML5 and in accessible from all mobile devices at the link. Platforms: mobile website The CDC Influenza application is for health care professionals. It offers update-to-date information on national flu activity and the latest recommendations for diagnosis and treatment. New information is ‘pushed' to your device whenever you have a signal, so you never have to search for the most up-to-date information. Platforms: iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. This tool is a Web-based application only available on mobile devices, not to be confused with a mobile app. Simply enter the names and amounts of your dietary supplements, and they'll be stored for your use anytime, anywhere—for example, when seeing your doctor or shopping. With MyDS you also can email your personal list of dietary supplements to yourself or to your health care providers and print it out for reference. Platforms: mobile website application A record of current and past medications is useful if not vital information to an individual. Such information needs to be easily accessible, yet adequately protected. MyMedList is an application developed at the National Library of Medicine. MML allows users to manage their medication list, and control access to it. The personal medication list can be printed out to share, can be mailed to a relative, can serve as a reminder to the individual for taking medications, or be shown as reference information in doctor's offices or hospitals. Platforms: Apple iOS devices PubMed offers multiple ways to search the PubMed database, including a mobile website and mobile applications for iOS and Andriod devices. This archive contains more than 22 million references for biomedical literature from science journals, and online books. In the app you can ask a general question, search keywords in specific fields, and read abstracts of articles. The iOS version also gives you search options in 13 languages. Platforms: mobile website, app for iOS and Android devices AIDS.gov has three objectives: 1. Expand visibility of timely and relevant Federal HIV policies, programs, and resources to the American public. 2. Increase use of new media tools by government, minority, and other community partners to extend the reach of HIV programs to communities at greatest risk. 3. Increase knowledge about HIV and access to HIV services for people most at-risk for, or living with, HIV. Platforms: mobile website Comprehensive drug abuse related website with research, treatment reports and news. Includes a site for teachers and students with educational materials. Platforms: mobile website The National Institute on Drug Abuse website for Teens. Helps educate adolescents ages 11 through 15 (as well as their parents and teachers) on the science behind drug abuse. Platforms: mobile website 7-2-1-scope internal external both select external external external external both external external both external both both external external external both external both external 7-2-1-customers text Individuals looking for information about assessing/reducing their risk for heart disease and stroke Public, Seniors, People with Disabilities, Health Care Providers, Caregivers, Families Primary audiences: American public including parents, teachers, students, current smokers, potential quitters. Secondary audiences: researchers, policy makers, friends and family of current smokers. General public looking for health information with low health literacy and/or low Internet skills Health Care Providers, Compliance Officers, Associations, Congress, Public Scientists and health experts, laypeople interested in health, science and the environment, students, grantees, the press, job seekers Primary: teachers, teens, young adults Secondary: general consumer Nurses, health administrators, policymakers and researchers. Older adults, caregivers and aging professionals Public, HHS employees, federal employees, OMB, GSA, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Developers healthcare providers, health information consumers, researchers, scientists & librarians Healthcare providers Drug consumers and supplement users. Public consumers of any medications or supplements Scientists and health experts, students, grantees. Primary: general public looking for information about risks and Community based organizations and grantees. Secondary: Researchers, Educators. This is NIDA's primary site, with an audience representing a wide swath of the population. It is broken down into the following audience channels: Researchers, Medical & Health professionals, Patients & Families, Teachers & Parents, and Students and Young Adults. targeted to teens and pre-teens, as well as parents and teachers interested in viewing information on drug abuse through graphic design and messaging designed for teens. 7-2-1-uii text 009-000275896 009-000001474 009-000005797 009-000000961 009-000236976 009-000001270 009-000000532 009-000224916 009-000000584 009-000005797 009-000002049 009-000000532 The Office of Dietary Supplements does not report these investments as IT investments, therefore there are no UIIs for this. This work was done as part of communication outreach with the web portions a small component of these contracts. 009-000002049 009-000002059 009-000282596 NIDA does not report these investments as IT investments, therefore there are no UIIs for this. 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