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Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a growing family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).  HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the U.S. Read More »

HealthData.Gov

HealthData.Gov is a U.S. government web site managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). The goal is to unleash the power of private-sector innovators and entrepreneurs to utilize HHS data to create applications, products, services and features that help improve health and health care -- while also helping to create jobs of the future at the same time. Read More »

HHS wants wider use of its open data

Zach Rausnitz | FierceGovernmentIT | October 25, 2013

In the next few years, the Health Data Initiative plans to focus on publicizing its openly available data to ensure it's put to use. Read More »

Hospital Safety Score

The Leapfrog Group is a highly respected patient safety organization. They’ve earned a reputation for carefully and thoughtfully assessing providers’ actual performance in quality and safety. Their mission statement:

To trigger giant leaps forward in the safety, quality and affordability of health care by: Read More »

KPMG Healthcare Report, Open Data & Consumer Comparison Shopping

KPMG’s recently released report "Something to Teach, Something to Learn"  revealed that while nearly all healthcare leaders accept that the way the industry works will change over the next five years, only a quarter of them are preparing to overhaul their business models. Read More »

myDrugCosts

myDrugCosts is a web-based health nformation platform that empowers patients to make better decisions about purchasing prescription drugs. myDrugCosts can help patients and doctors confer on what drug choices make the most sense financially. Read More »

NationMaster Health Data & Statistics

The NationMaster web site contains a wide compilation of health information, data & statistics from such sources as the UN, WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, etc.

NY Health Data Transparency Draws Journalists, Researchers and Coders

Miranda Neubauer | TechPresident | December 17, 2013

New York transparency advocates are praising the state's leadership role in making health data accessible Read More »

NY State to Publish More Hospital Charge Data

David Raths | Healthcare Informatics | October 31, 2013

New York State ...plans to publish on its web site hospital charge data for 1,400 conditions in the State. Read More »

Obama touts free and Open Data, says it creates jobs

Patrick Thibodeau | ComputerWorld | July 9, 2013

As the government cuts its own employment, federal agencies are trying to stimulate job creation by making vast amounts of government data freely available. Read More »

OHN 2012 Readers Choice: Most visited 'Open Data' sources of health information

The global 'Open Data' movement continues to grow and strengthen. Each month, the number of new 'open data' web sites and resources increases. Based on the number of hits by Open Health News (OHN) readers on links to 'open data' sources of health information, the following are their top choices:  Read More »

OHNews 2013 Readers Choice: Most visited 'Open Data' sources of Health Information

As we head towards the end of the year, the global 'Open Health' movement continues to grow and strengthen. Each month, the number of new 'open data' web sites and resources increases. Read More »

OKCon Highlights Use Of Open Data In Science & Health

Alessandro Marongiu | IP Watch | September 18, 2013

At the end of a two-day conference in Switzerland, open knowledge experts emphasised the role of open data in strengthening science findings’ credibility, fostering medical research and enhancing sustainable development. Read More »

Open Data Handbook

The Open Data Handbook introduces you to legal, social and technical aspects of 'open data'. It explains the basic concepts of ‘open data’ and especially open government data. It covers how open data creates value and can have a positive impact in many different areas. Read More »

Open Data Has Little Value If People Can't Use It

Craig Hammer | Harvard Business Review | March 29, 2013

Open data could be the gamechanger when it comes to eradicating global poverty. In the last two years, central and local governments and multilateral organizations around the world have opened a range of data — information on budgets, infrastructure, health, sanitation, education, and more — online, for free. The data are not perfect, but then perfection is not the goal. Read More »