How is Enterprise Architecture used within HHS?
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the U.S. Government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. Spanning more than 300 programs, HHS is the Nation’s largest health insurer and the U.S. Government’s largest grant-making agency. HHS’s over-arching central direction is to function as a single entity, as “One HHS,” rather than as a collection of disparate and unrelated agencies. To this end, HHS is reforming Department management processes, improving its programs, and continues to increasingly collaborate and coordinate significant activities among HHS agencies. The importance of a one-team approach has been underlined by the extensive new demands on HHS and its agencies to rapidly enhance preparedness against terrorism. The HHS Strategic Plan contains a management improvement and excellence goal, which includes strategies to consolidate personnel offic
