Blog Entries
By Steven Randazzo On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 11:06am
Last week, the first official meeting of the Subcommittee on Data Access and Use, a subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, met in Silver Spring, Maryland to discuss how the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) data is accessed and utilized. The subcommittee is charged with providing recommendations to HHS on how to make health data more readily available and accessible. They represent members of the start-up, tech, academic, business, government, and healthcare community. Such diversity will provide broad perspectives and experiences about the different aspects of health data. Earlier in the day, the sub-committee heard from U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, in which the group discussed access and the use of data. Among the discussed topics to be explored further, include: Read more » |
By Niall Brennan On Friday, June 22, 2012 - 1:46pm
No longer are health records something that sit in a folder in your doctor’s office never to see the light of day! The power of having personal health data at your finger tips is a new and growing phenomenon with help from Medicare Blue Button. Blue Button allows Medicare beneficiaries to access their health data on a website or mobile device and download their personal health data from a personal health record or from their doctors’, hospital’s or clinical laboratory’s patient portal. Since its launch, hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries have downloaded their personal health data. The power of personal health data has taken another step forward, with new opportunities between beneficiaries and their providers as demonstrated at Health Datapalooza III with the announcement of the Blue Button Mash Up Challenge. Read more » |
By Todd Park, United States Chief Technology Officer On Monday, June 4, 2012 - 5:48pm
Welcome to the new and improved HealthData.gov! HealthData.gov is a public resource designed to bring liberated health datasets, innovation challenges, and applications and tools to the public to help increase public knowledge and solve problems in health. The datasets found on HealthData.gov are from agencies across Federal government with the goal of using open data to improve the health of all Americans. Read more » |
By Niall Brennan On Monday, June 4, 2012 - 4:30pm
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is strongly committed to the principles of transparency that underpin HealthData.gov and applauds the HealthData.gov redesign. We wanted to take a little time in this blog posting to let you know of several exciting developments regarding data and transparency at CMS that we are very excited about. Read more » |
By Steven Randazzo On Monday, June 4, 2012 - 3:46pm
What is the best possible way to highlight and launch new innovation, data, and partnerships based on work from public and private collaboration throughout the year? Well through a palooza of course! Read more » |