Blog Entries
 By Steven Randazzo On Monday, August 13, 2012 - 2:06pm
The next installment of HealthData.gov’s blog post series highlighting applications that have been developed leveraging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data features Archimedes IndiGO. Archimedes IndiGO was featured on the main stage at this year’s Health Data Initiative Forum III: Health Datapalooza. IndiGO, a clinical decision support tool developed by Archimedes, Inc., is an innovative new application that relies on open government data, personal health data, and an individual’s choice to provide an overall health status. Read more » |
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By Steven Randazzo On Monday, August 13, 2012 - 11:52am
On August 9 – 10, 2012 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) held its first ever Behavioral Health Data Users Conference and it was awesome! Over two days, SAMHSA brought data owners and users together in one place to better explore the treasure trove of behavioral health data being produced by SAMHSA. Unlike other conferences, the SAMHSA Behavioral Health Data Users Conference not only convened people to provide an overview of what type of data is available, but actually trained attendees on how to access data, create tables and run regressions! The two-day conference featured an agenda jam packed with something for everyone. The morning started out with U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park discussing the power of data and how it can be harnessed to address some of the United States most critical needs, specifically noting that by 2020 behavioral health conditions will surpass all physical diseases as a major cause of disability worldwide. Read more » |
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By Steven Randazzo On Monday, August 6, 2012 - 5:35pm
The next installment of HealthData.gov’s blog post series highlighting applications that have been developed leveraging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data features HealthGrades. Below is a guest post by Roger Holstein, Healthgrades Chief Executive Officer. The federal government collects immense quantities of health care data. A natural first step towards facilitating innovation in both the private and public sectors is providing that data to developers through services such as HealthData.gov.Disseminating data to organizations that can: 1) interpret the data, 2) marry it to other data sets, and 3) distribute the data in a meaningful way to the public will result in better educated users of the health care system.If distributed broadly and communicated correctly, it will also result in positive behavior change by both consumers and providers of care. Read more » |
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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 » |