Blog Entries
 By Steven Randazzo On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 4:35pm
HealthData.gov now features 20% more data! Recently HealthData.gov added a number of new data sets ranging from mortality rates of infants to verified tuberculosis rates and much more. In an effort to liberate and feature more government health data, HealthData.gov is calling on the different agencies that comprise the Department of Health and Human Services to post more data than ever before on HealthData.gov. The new data sets include data from the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database. The WONDER database is a great database that helps promote information-driven decision making by placing timely, useful facts in the hands of health practitioners and researchers and provides the general public access to specific and detailed health information from the CDC. New data from the WONDER database featured on HealthData.gov includes the Mortality – Multiple Cause of Death data, Mortality – Infant Deaths data and Online Tuberculosis Information System data. Read more » |
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By Steven Randazzo On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 5:19pm
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 call is designed for Health Data Initiative Affiliates (and their invited guests) and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (and their invited guests). The detailed agenda is as follows: Read more » |
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By Steven Randazzo On Monday, July 30, 2012 - 3:37pm
The following is entry is cross-posted from the Office of the National Coordinator's Health IT Buzz Blog on July 27, 2012 authored by Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Can we really prevent a million heart attacks and strokes in the next five years? The Million HeartsTM initiative is a public-private effort to do just that by implementing proven, effective, and inexpensive interventions. It’s doable only because so many individuals at high risk for heart attacks and strokes are not being adequately treated, and in many cases, are not in treatment at all. Only 47 percent of people at high risk are on aspirin; less than half of those with high blood pressure or cholesterol have it well controlled; and about one fourth are unaware of their condition. Million HeartsTM Risk Check Challenge Read more » |
 By George Thomas On Monday, July 30, 2012 - 3:16pm
We’d like to thank you for participating in the Health Data Platform Challenges webinar held this past Thursday, July 19. We appreciate your interest in our developer challenges, and hope you'll register and submit innovative works. The webinar recording and presentation are embedded below. We'd also like to clarify our answer to a question at ~28 minutes in the webinar recording regarding international participation in our HealthData.gov challenges, which may have incorrectly given the impression that non-US citizens and entities cannot participate. To be clear, the correct answer is that non-US citizens and entities are welcome to participate. Read more » |
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By Steven Randazzo On Monday, July 23, 2012 - 3:58pm
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 Metadata Domain Challenge requests the application of existing voluntary consensus data standards for metadata common to all types of government data, and invites new designs for health domain specific metadata to classify datasets in our growing catalog, creating entities, attributes and relations that form the foundations for better discovery, integration and liquidity. Open to submission until October 2, 2012, the winner will demonstrate the application of voluntary consensus and de facto cross domain and domain specific standards to as many of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services datasets available on HealthData.gov. The two objectives are to: Read more » |