The healthcare industry has had a love-hate relationship with patient data. There’s either too much or too little, in the wrong format or siloed so that extracting and sharing it with all the people ...

Covid-19 was a severe test for our public health system. It laid bare many challenges and the need to focus attention on data collection, sharing and analysis to empower data-driven decision-making.

At an event to commemorate 50 years of the National Sample Survey (NSS) in 2001, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee noted that these surveys had contributed “invaluable raw material" to ...

Data reigns supreme and companies face complex issues regarding the collection, analysis and security of the information they deploy. The insurance sector is a microcosm of data management, offering ...

When implementing disability-inclusive practices, governments should consider several key factors, as illustrated through a federal request for information (RFI), and in a new local data standard. The ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

Herkulaas MvE Combrink is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Centre For Digital Futures at the University of the Free State. Benjamin T H Smart receives funding from The National Research ...

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information used for research. Collecting data is one of the most important steps in the research process, and is part of all disciplines ...

Baltimore was a pioneer in implementing data-driven management in local government, but over 20 years it wasn’t always embraced. The lesson? Culture and leadership matter. The CleanStat dashboard is ...

The federal teams that count public health problems are disappearing — putting efforts to solve those problems in jeopardy. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of ...