How Virginia is fighting the pandemic with an advanced data strategy

The vaccine rollout is hitting full steam in the United States. Hundreds of millions of vaccine doses have been delivered into people’s arms. The vaccine distribution effort is crucial to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. And to get those vaccine doses into people’s arms, you need a good registration system. And to have a good registration system, you need good data management. Today's special guest  Carlos Rivero is the Chief Data Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. We are also joined by Info-Tech’s data practice lead, Andy Neill. Carlos discusses how the Commonwealth's centralized registration portal was key to driving a smooth vaccine rollout and details the data architecture features of the system. Virginia also used its open data portal to make available key data sets related to COVID-19 infections, illustrating how different communities are impacted by the virus. We also discuss the Commonwealth's data trust and how it sets up a legal framework to enable data sharing in a privacy-protective way.  This episode of Tech Insights was also recorded as video that will be featured on Info-Tech's social media channels.