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Health Data Community

You've found a public resource designed to bring together high-value datasets, tools, and applications using data about health and health care to support your need for better knowledge and to help you to solve problems. These datasets and tools have been gathered from agencies across the Federal government with the goal of improving health for all Americans. Check back frequently because the site will be updated as more datasets and tools become available.

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Health Data Initiative Forum III

The Health Data Palooza
June 5-6, 2012
Washington Convention Center

Special Features

Health Data Initiative Forum III

The Health Data Palooza
June 5-6, 2012
Washington Convention Center

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Recent Blog Post

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Clinical Quality Linked Data on Health.data.gov

6/9/2011
By: George Thomas

In addition to making flatfiles available to download on the Web, and providing applications that enable programmatic access to backend databases through the Web, imagine using the Web itself as a database: a massively distributed, decentralized...

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Challenges

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Get inspired to create your own application using the data and tools made available through HealthData.gov. Challenges and contests where you can compete against other programmers to create great health-related applications can be found through the following links.

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