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Posted by Patricia Devine on March 16th, 2018
Posted in: Data Science, News from NLM
“Every day more than four million people use NLM resources; every hour, a petabyte of data moves in or out of our computing systems.”
The National Library of Medicine Board of Regents has released the Strategic Plan for 2017-2027: “A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data-Powered Health.” Working in conjunction with NLM planning staff, the Board identified themes to use as a framework to develop future priorities and directions. Public input was solicited on these themes:
In addition, the following topics were considered across the four themes: partnerships, user communities, user engagement and educational outreach, international engagement,health disparities, standards, infrastructure, workforce development, research needs and funding.
The Strategic Plan introduces three major goals:
From Dr. Patricia Brennan’s introduction:
Your comments on the Strategic Plan are welcome. Please send to: NLM Director’s Office (NLMDirectorsOffice@mail.nlm.nih.gov)