Options for the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water Information Strategy (Working Draft).

摘要

Information is critical to the management of major national programs and shapes responses to rapidly changing events in the public health arena. The Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water must bring its information management into strategic alignment with the needs of both its internal and external stakeholders to maintain credibility in a data-driven environment. Information management in the private sector provides examples of reduced costs and improved decision support systems using current technology that can be applied in the public sector. This Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW) Information Strategy is a first step in revising its Information Strategic Plan (ISP) to focus on essential data, reporting and analyses supporting decisions of the national ground water and drinking water programs to protect public health. The objective of the OGWDW Information Strategy is to identify a range of actions in the near term to modernize its information systems and to define achievable direction in the intermediate and longer terms that recognize evolving information needs and technology, and effective and efficient information management to support public health protection.