The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Innovation Team is taking new steps to make it easier for people to connect and find information on our innovation activities. As an example, we have used Twitter to promote the first time public voting for selecting input on the HHSinnovates Program.
Here are some of the ways we are connecting with you.
Earlier this summer, the U.S.
The next installment of HealthData.gov’s blog post series highlighting applications that have been developed leveraging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data features Archimedes IndiGO. Archimedes IndiGO was featured on the main stage at this year’s Health Data Initiative Forum III: Health Datapalooza.
On August 9 – 10, 2012 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) held its first ever Behavioral Health Data Users Conference and it was awesome! Over two days, SAMHSA brought data owners and users together in one place to better explore the treasure trove of behavioral health data being produced by SAMHSA.
The next installment of HealthData.gov’s blog post series highlighting applications that have been developed leveraging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data features HealthGrades.
Below is a guest post by Roger Holstein, Healthgrades Chief Executive Officer.
New to HealthData.gov or just want to get refreshed on the awesome capabilities of the site and what data sets are available? Make sure to join us tomorrow Aug 1st, 12pm-1pm EST for a webinar on “Orientation to Healthdata.gov”. We are pleased to have speakers from the Innovation Team at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Jim Craver, the Director of the Office of Analysis and Epidemiology at the National Center for Health Statistics; and Niall Brennan, Director of Policy and Data Analysis at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The first of three rounds of HealthData.gov’s developer challenges are currently open for submission! Health Data.gov is hosting three rounds of challenges that focus on one of two areas, domain or platform. The first round features two challenges that are putting developers to the test; the first to focus on data integration and liquidity is the Metadata Domain Challenge.
The next installment of HealthData.gov’s blog post series highlighting applications that have been developed leveraging U.S.
For the past three years, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has been liberating vast amounts of data for public use, which can be found here on HealthData.gov. Our theory is that if we take the vast stores of data HHS already has, stripped out the personal information and made it available to developers, the data would then be used to create incredible tools; and that’s exactly what’s happened. Since focusing on liberating data, more than 200 applications have been developed with the use public health data.
