NIH juggles digital transformation across dozens of biomedical missions

Federal News Network: To take on digital transformation for its 27 separate institutes and centers, the National Institutes of Health is looking ahead another five years.

The agency within the Department of Health and Human Services has a nearly $40 billion budget, about 80% percent of which goes to nearly 2,500 universities and medical centers nationwide. NIH supports about 300,000 researchers, which means, according to CIO Andrea Norris, much of its activity focuses on “investigator-researcher-initiated ideas and hypothesis for discovery.”

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