Data interoperability is top of mind for public health leaders as they grapple with tightening budgets, changes in reimbursements rates, evolving policy mandates and persistent workforce shortages, according to a new report. [Route 50 and APHA]

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The drive to improve data services comes as agencies nationwide are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence as a tool in government operations to enhance efficiency and streamline workflows, according to a report released Tuesday by data platform company Snowflake. The findings are based on a survey of 183 health care decision-makers, including public health agency officials. 

Indeed, 85% of respondents said data interoperability was a “higher or much higher priority” to their organization than in previous years, while 57% of respondents identified AI implementation as a reason for that, the report found. 

“Interoperability is not a top industry priority simply because regulators have said it should be,” Shahran Haider, deputy chief data officer of NYC Health and Hospitals, said in the report. “It is the connective tissue that enables AI-driven value across the full spectrum of operational efficiency and clinical improvement opportunities, benefiting not just individual organizations, but our health care system and society as a whole.”

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