What types of applications have been developed using healthdata.gov data?

Open HHS data can help power applications, products, services, and features that help consumers take control of their health and health care, doctors and nurses provide better care, and community leaders make better-informed decisions.  HHS data has served as part of the foundation for competition, consumer choice, and innovation and a number of successful startup ventures and successful businesses have emerged from the data:

100Plus takes basic health information -- weight, height, diet, activities, stress level -- and creates a benchmark that is used to compare people to those with similar attributes. The key to the company's ability to make health predictions is large amounts of information culled from sources like the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.

The Healthline search engine has ingested massive amounts of data from HHS agencies and other sources to help make internet search on health topics and issues substantially more reliable, accurate, and helpful.  Healthline is currently the largest health search engine on the internet, registering over 100 million search entries per month.

Aetna has integrated HHS data on everything from care provider quality to the availability of eldercare support services to the latest medical education information for patients into an “IT cockpit” for nurse case managers in its call centers to help these nurses provide information-rich support for patients.  Aetna recently acquired Healthagen, the developer of mobile app iTriage, a rapidly growing mobile and web platform that allows patients to make better informed health decisions.  iTriage has used HHS health facility locator databases to help consumers find nearby care providers that are right for them.  To date, the app has over 3 million downloads on the iTunes store.