This document discusses efforts by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to promote open data and innovation in health care. It outlines initiatives like launching a collaborative project to develop a simple method for securely transmitting health information over the internet, publishing over 160,000 community health data metrics for the country, and morphing CHD into a broader CHDI that fuels a rapidly expanding ecosystem of innovation using government data. It also details how CHDI is now becoming a broader health data initiative and how clinical provider data is being liberalized via programs like Hospital Compare, Nursing Home Compare, and Dialysis Facility Compare.
SXSW 2011 Todd Park Health Innovation Data and Technology Talk
1. A Historic Opportunity:
Unleashing the Power of Open Data and
Innovation to Improve Health
Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
@todd_park