Niall Brennan, chief data officer and director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics at CMS, has received the Health Data Liberators Award from the Health Data Consortium.
Chris Boone, PhD, CEO of HDC, and Charles Ornstein, a representative of the 2014 Health Data Liberators Award recipients from ProPublica, presented Mr. Brennan with the award during Health Datapalooza 2015 in Washington, D.C.
"The American healthcare consumer is better served today thanks in large part to Niall's tireless, behind-the-scenes work to make public health data readily available and accessible, helping to refocus our system of care to be patient-centered and more cost-effective," said Dr. Boone. "Through Niall's leadership and as the first chief data officer at CMS, open data remains a priority within the federal government. We are excited to give this award to Niall, a longtime health data champion and Health Datapalooza contributor, and recognize his important work in making CMS a healthcare innovator."