A call to strengthen data in response to COVID-19 and beyond | Zendy

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A call to strengthen data in response to COVID-19 and beyond

Author(s) -

Natasha AzzopardiMuscat,

Hans Kluge,

Samira Asma,

David Novillo-Ortiz

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1093/jamia/ocaa308

Subject(s) - data governance , pandemic , corporate governance , covid-19 , business , computer science , plan (archaeology) , key (lock) , health informatics , data science , health care , computer security , medicine , economic growth , disease , marketing , data quality , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , geography , metric (unit) , archaeology , finance , pathology

The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic has underscored the critical need for all countries to strengthen their health data and information systems and ensure the routes the data travel, from submission to use, are unobstructed. Timely, credible, reliable, and actionable data are key to ensuring that political decisions are data driven and facilitate understanding, monitoring, and forecasting. To ensure that critical decisions related to the wider health and socioeconomic effects of this pandemic are data driven, each country needs to develop or enhance a national data governance plan that includes a clear coordination mechanism, well-defined and documented data processes (manual or electronic), the exchange of data, and a data culture to empower users. In addition, countries should now more than ever invest and enhance their data and health information systems to ensure that all decisions are data driven and that they are prepared for what is next.

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