Opening health data to spur innovation
Nicholas has come to the HHS Center for New Media to explore new and innovative media tools that members of the HHS community are building and using. This is the first of a series of podcasts and blogs that highlights those new media efforts.
As part of the Open Government Initiative, HHS is opening health data to become more transparent, participatory, and collaborative.
By releasing raw datasets, free for the public to use and free from intellectual property constraint, HHS is spurring a marketplace of new ideas and new applications. Two ways HHS is doing this is one, through the Community Health Data Initiative, and secondly, the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge.
How is HHS opening health data to spur innovation? In this podcast, I spoke with HHS’ Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, to understand how opening health data and sponsoring challenges is spurring innovation, creating new applications, and promoting the mission of HHS. |
If you have any questions regarding this podcast or want to get in touch about a project you’re working on in HHS, please email newmedia@hhs.gov.
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