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COVID-19: HHS Needs to Identify Duplicative Pandemic IT Systems and Implement Key Privacy Requirements

GAO-24-106638
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that component agencies proactively and consistently identify and track the funding sources and costs dedicated to operating and maintaining all of their systems supporting pandemic public health preparedness and response. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response develops the authorization to operate for the Electronic Medical Records System. (Recommendation 8)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration ensures that the senior official for privacy reviews and approves the system security categorization for the Biologics Information Tracking System – Compliance. (Recommendation 13)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the HHS CIO develops and maintains a department-wide comprehensive list of systems, including component systems, that support pandemic public health preparedness and response. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response revises the system privacy plan for ASPR Ready to include the privacy controls in place or planned for meeting the privacy requirements. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration conducts and develops privacy impact assessments for all pandemic public health preparedness and response systems that include personally identifiable information. (Recommendation 11)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that component agencies proactively and consistently identify and track staffing resources, including the type and number of staff dedicated to managing all of their systems supporting pandemic public health preparedness and response. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts and develops privacy impact assessments for all pandemic public health preparedness and response systems that include personally identifiable information. (Recommendation 9)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration develops an assessment of privacy controls for the Biologics Information Tracking System – Compliance. (Recommendation 14)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should ensure that the HHS CIO conducts reviews of systems that support pandemic public health preparedness and response across the department to identify and reduce any unnecessary duplication, overlap, or fragmentation and identify mitigation options, such as consolidation or elimination of systems. The HHS CIO should share the results of its reviews with components when identifying any instances of unnecessary duplication, overlap, or fragmentation. (Recommendation 2)
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