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Niranjana Kowlessar, VP, Public Health and Data Analytics Lead; Stephen Goldstein, Chief Growth Officer, DSFederalDSFederal, a Woman Owned Small Business and one of Healthcare Tech Outlook’s top 10 healthcare IT service providers in 2022, is looking to eliminate these issues by focusing on augmented data analytics and advanced data management solutions to help the Department of Health and Human Services support its research, surveillance, and public health missions.
DSFederal’s Chief Growth Officer Stephen Goldstein states that the company aims to “bring technology solutions to bear on the most critical issues in disease research and care, including data aggregation, data analysis, and automating data insights.” DSFederal has outlined a three-step approach to better support research, focusing on artificial intelligence to gain a deeper understanding of health data, data standards to offer robust assistance in data aggregation, and data management in the cloud to deliver powerful insights at scale.
“Our goal is to enable efficient, transparent, and managed ingest, translation, and review of data from across the health research and regulatory sectors,” says Dr. Niranjana Kowlessar, DSFederal’s Vice President and Public Health and Data Analytics Lead.
“We support researchers in fundamental research, policy development, and grants support by building informatics systems that store, manage, and expose research data in Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable ways. Our work crosses HHS agencies, including the NIH, CDC, CMS, HRSA, ONC, and HHS, with a goal to maximize our impact by providing cutting edge technical solutions that solve data size, data isolation, and data insight collection issues every agency in HHS faces,” notes Dr. Kowlessar. “We are creating tools that will drive research efficiency, optimize grants funding, and help shift healthcare research toward a more automated, more coordinated, and more sustainable model.” she adds.
To that end, Healthcare Tech Outlook is naming DSFederal, a top 10 healthcare IT service provider because of its investment in health-centric artificial intelligence, cuttingedge informatics technology development chops, and impact on research agencies like the NIH, HHS, and the USDA. Twentytwo of DSFederal’s 120 employees are data scientists, reflecting the company’s emphasis on bringing AI and ML solutions to the health space. Many of its data scientists are working at the NIH, where DSFederal is automating the ingestion and categorization of research grants for the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER).
Rounding out DSFederal’s capabilities, they support critical efforts in health IT data standardization at the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), where DSFederal built and maintains the healthit.gov website, which helps promote nationwide, standardsbased health information exchange to improve health care. The healthit.gov website manages feedback and discussions around proposed standards and is the authoritative source for health information exchange and interoperability in the United States.
DSFederal has also made a significant investment in bioinformatics IT support. Its work at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) supports fundamental informatics systems like PubMed and GenBank that maintain a comprehensive record of the latest peer-reviewed information in human biology, radiology, and chemistry.
Our goal is to maximize our impact by providing cutting edge technical solutions that solve data size, data isolation, and data insight collection issues every agency in HHS faces
Rounding out DSFederal’s capabilities, they support critical efforts in health IT data standardization at the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), where DSFederal built and maintains the healthit.gov website, which helps promote nationwide, standardsbased health information exchange to improve health care. The healthit.gov website manages feedback and discussions around proposed standards and is the authoritative source for health information exchange and interoperability in the United States.
The pace of change in health information technology is changing rapidly but DSFederal has positioned itself at the tip of this wave, and has made deep investments to stay on the curl and successfully deliver impacts to organizations looking for innovation, automation, and insights around health data and research support systems. DSFederal’s status as one of Healthcare Tech Outlook’s top 10 health information technology service providers is built on its thoughtful strategy for the future of Health IT and investments in advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to prepare them for this future.
Company
DSFederal
Management
Niranjana Kowlessar, VP, Public Health and Data Analytics Lead; Stephen Goldstein, Chief Growth Officer, DSFederal
Description
DSFederal works with different federal agencies like the Centers for Disease Control, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the National Institutes of Health, to name a few.Through these efforts, DSFederal strives to address fundamental issues such as access to quality of health care, delivery of care, and privacy issues around healthcare data to improve public health.
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Clement Chen to Lead DSFederal as Its New Chief Executive Officer
Founded in 2007, DSFederal is focused on empowering federal agencies to achieve their mission by connecting the dots between data, policy, people and technology. The company’s highly specialized team, deep public health expertise combined with a broad technology skill set enables them to derive insights to help shape federal policies and decisions.
Chen has more than 30 years of technology and systems integration experience in the government and private sectors including health care, energy, logistics and national security with a focus on data analytics and cybersecurity. He has held leadership posts as a naval officer, as a vice president at Lockheed Martin and most recently as the chief strategy officer and business unit operating executive for Leidos Health Group, a science and technology solutions company. During his 14-year tenure at Leidos Health Group he led strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, business development operations and led the health and human services and commercial cybersecurity divisions.
At Lockheed Martin, Chen was responsible for driving innovative concepts linking technology development, business models and strategy. He was also a senior financial analyst at IBM earlier in his career. Prior to joining the private sector, Chen was a naval officer, specializing in surface warfare, engineering and operations analysis. Chen earned a B.S. in applied science from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MBA at the College of William and Mary.
“We are thrilled to have Clement join me in leading our company into the future,” said Sophia Parker, chairwoman of DSFederal. “He has a solid track record of successfully managing data and technology driven teams and his passion for making a difference in the world is aligned with our vision and values. Success for our clients is increasingly dependent on the ability to connect the dots and leveraging data for meaningful and actionable insights. Clement’s unique comprehensive skill set of strategic thinking, technical understanding, operational experience and adaptability will enable our team to continue innovating the way we partner with our clients.”
“I am humbled and excited to be joining DSFederal,” said Clement Chen, chief executive officer for DSFederal. “Sophia and the team have built a vibrant company that is poised to continue its growth and I look forward to working across this talented organization in delivering on the vision to improve human life through transformative solutions. Together, we can apply data science, analytics and technology in making the world a healthier and better place.”