How One City Agency Built a Bridge to Data Ownership

Like many public health agencies during the COVID pandemic, city health leaders in Washington, D.C., urgently needed to make data-driven decisions fast. But the health department did not own and manage its own data, which significantly hindered its ability to access and leverage the information. In a bold move, agency leaders decided to accelerate pre-pandemic plans to modernize their legacy vaccination system and leaned full-force into migrating data and programs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in just four months.