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AIMD-94-51R 1 (1994-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackmj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Accounting and Information Management Division B-256096 February 14, 1994 Dr. Neil Stillman Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Resources Management Department of Health and Human Services Dear Dr. Stillman: At this time we are discontinuing our review of information resources management (IRM) strategic planning in the Public Health Service (PHS) and its agencies (job code 510919). Although preliminary work showed weaknesses in these agencies' IRM planning processes, we believe recent actions taken to improve IRM planning have decreased the need for a detailed review at this time. In closing out this assignment, we would like to share our preliminary observations with you and the PHS agencies for consideration in further improving the IRM planning process. The overall objective of our review was to determine the extent to which PHS and its agencies were using strategic IRM planning to help fulfill their missions and achieve national health objectives. We performed our work at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health and two PHS agencies--the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We also gathered general information from the other six PHS agencies on their IRM planning processes. Our work was generally limited to interviewing IRM officials within PHS, FDA, and CDC to identify their specific IRM planning processes; analyzing recent audits and evaluations of IRM activities to identify items that should be addressed in plans; and reviewing current IRM plans to determine if they contained essential elements. PHS ACTIONS TO IMPROVE STRATEGIC IRM PLANNING Several PHS agencies have taken action to improve their IRM planning. These actions are the result of organizational and GAO/AIMD-94-51R Public Health Service IRM O7sc

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