HHS Watchdog Agency to Speed Up Advisories, Modernize Data Tools

Health attorneys and compliance officers will have an easier, faster time navigating critical documents from the HHS inspector general under an overhaul of the watchdog agency’s communications and data arms.

“The pandemic and a compulsory switch to working remotely for many required us to think differently,” Christi Grimm, principal deputy inspector general of the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, said Tuesday. “During this time, providing more timely information became less of an aspiration, and more of an imperative. We’ve learned from these efforts and are working to modernize many of our functions.”

Grimm’s keynote at the American ...