ACT-IAC
Join us for the upcoming Health COI Member Meeting on Monday, July 13, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ET.
This in-person meeting will feature guest speaker Michael Tartakovsky, CIO of NIAID, who will discuss The Impact of AI on NIAID.
The event will be held at the Westat office in Bethesda, Maryland. Register to receive full event details.
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Join the Health COI for our upcoming member meeting on June 25, 2026. This virtual event will feature a fireside chat with Dr. Emily Boja, Branch Chief, Office of Data Sharing, National Cancer Institute. The discussion will be moderated by Ratima Kataria, VP, Health IT Strategy, ICF.
Session Title: From Data to Discovery: How NCI Is Advancing Cancer Research Through Scalable Data Sharing
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Join us for our upcoming Health COI Member Meeting on December 15, 2025, from 12 PM - 1 PM ET. This fully virtual event will feature a panel discussion on "Federal Health IT: Insights, Trends, and What Industry Needs to Know."
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Background
The NIH All of Us Research Program is a historic initiative that aims to build one of the largest and most diverse health databases. By engaging over 868,000 participants from diverse backgrounds across the United States, All of Us seeks to accelerate research and improve health outcomes through precision medicine. The program collects genomic, clinical, lifestyle, and participant-contributed data to provide a comprehensive resource for researchers.
Digital Health Technologies in Federal Health Research: Applications in Clinical and Analytic Research
Health Community of Interest
Date Published: June 30, 2025
This report explores how digital health technologies—including wearable devices, mobile health apps, implants, in-home monitoring tools, and environmental data collectors—can improve data collection and research outcomes in federal health studies, with a focus on the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program.
Authoritative Data Best Practices
Developed by the Health Community of Interest
Date Published: February 18, 2025
This paper describes the current state of the use and management of authoritative data, with the objectives of highlighting best practices for defining, sharing, and governing data based on experiences at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other government agencies, academia, and industry.
It includes a description of the approach for the research, findings, and the current and future states for authoritative data.
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. WE WILL FIND A NEW DATE AND NOTIFY REGISTRANTS ONCE A NEW SCHEDULE IS SET.
Please join us on February 12, 2025, for our Health COI Member Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Sean Mooney, Director, Center for Information Technology (CIT) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Event Details
Join the ACT-IAC Health COI on January 16, 2025, from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET, and hear from Latriece Prince-Wheeler, FACHE, Acting Deputy Chief Digital Health Officer, Digital Health Office, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
Note: This is going to be a virtual session via Teams. Link provided upon registration via Email.
Background
The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to gather data from at least 1 million people in the US. Its goal is to accelerate research and medical breakthroughs and enable individualized prevention, treatment, and care—the program's core values, including diversity, transparency, and accessibility, guide All of Us. The program creates a national research resource to inform thousands of studies covering various health conditions.
FHIR for Federal Health Research Studies: Policy, Data, and Technical Questions About Using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) for Federal Health Research Studies
Health Community of Interest
Date Published: May 10, 2024