The Office of the CTO is charged with promoting innovation and open data across the Department. Our approach to the challenge of creating a culture of innovation is to help HHS employees and leaders shine a spotlight on a problem, and then invite people from the private sector to contribute their expertise. HHS employees also use our programs to test and develop their ideas in an entrepreneurial environment.
On his first day in office, President Obama announced administration policies to make government serve the American people better through greater transparency, collaboration, and participation.
It was Catherine's careful research using publicly accessible resources that had brought them to this moment - a diagnosis - that eludes many people, especially those with mysterious symptoms.
By making prices and quality information more accessible, providing the right tools to help people navigate the system, and listening to patients, we can help engage and empower people to take control of their health, something that's good for them and good for our communities.
The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation challenges kids (ages 5 to 21) to come up with a creative solution to a real-world problem.
Our website is a combination of the data that we've collected from more than a hundred thousand consumers on their experience of medication and then the open data that we've extracted, mainly out of the FDA.
When I told my husband and kids that I would be traveling with an official diplomatic passport, they immediately started re-enacting the scene from Star Wars when Princess Leia insists to Darth Vader that she is on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.
