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AcademyHealth Becomes Host Organization for 2016 Health Datapalooza

Press Release | Academy Health | November 23, 2015

AcademyHealth will host the 7th Annual Health Datapalooza, May 8-11, 2016, in Washington, DC. “As the national organization working with the producers and users of evidence to improve health and the performance of the health system, and the home of the EDM Forum, AcademyHealth has long been a champion for data liberation and a catalyst for its use in decision making and quality improvement,” said AcademyHealth President and CEO, Dr. Lisa Simpson. “As hosts of the Health Datapalooza, we’ll build on our work in this area to shape an agenda that engages the broad community of data liberation champions -- patients, advocates, researchers and delivery system and industry leaders -- in focused discussions about how we turn data into evidence, and evidence into actions that improve health outcomes.”

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Can Public Health Data Mapping And Visualization Transform Healthcare Globally? [Australia]

Nick Saalfeld and Ben Heubl | HIT Consultant | July 31, 2014

Laurie Hawkins, project manager of the Victorian Human Services Directory in Australia discusses how public health data mapping can improve global health...

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Check out the enhanced ONC Health IT Dashboard

Want to better understanding health IT and the transformative changes that electronic health records (EHR) are having in our nation's health care system? Read More »

Government Must Measure Value Of Open Data In Healthcare, Share Failures, Says Britain

Medha Basu | FutureGov | June 10, 2014

Government employees must share failings of using open health data and engage with citizens to define measures of open data success, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) and New York University’s GovLab have found. 

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Health Datapalooza 2012: Throw Your Hat Into the Ring!

Todd Park | The Health Care Blog | March 12, 2012

It’s a phenomenal time to be an innovator at the intersection of data and health care improvement...And coming soon is the latest opportunity to showcase and learn about many of those innovations: the 2012 Health Data Initiative Forum– aka the Health Datapalooza — being held in DC at the Washington Convention Center on June 5-6, 2012. Read More »

HHS Secretary Equates Health IT to ‘Burden’ for Doctors

Billy Mitchell | FedScoop | April 27, 2017

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price advocated Thursday for reducing the burden placed upon physicians and health care providers by the health technology that is otherwise meant to improve care for patients. Speaking at his first Health Datapalooza as the head of HHS, Price said the proliferation of health IT is something that “can have remarkably challenging and sometimes destructive consequences”...

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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 »

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 Now: Hottest Contenders for 2014

Mark Boyd | Programmable Web | January 1, 2014

A book about open data, to be released in January—and the launch of a pilot website showcasing open data businesses—both forecast a big year for open data in 2014, and highlight the importance of APIs in powering this new wave of innovation. Read More »

Open Data will Improve Healthcare Worldwide

Staff Writer | The Information Daily | May 1, 2013

Vice President of Telefonica Europe Dr Mike Short believes that open data could not only improve business models and products, but could also vastly improve the quality of people's lives in remote areas and improve the care that they receive. Read More »

Open Health Data: An International Snapshot

Eugene Borukhovich | Health 2.0 News | January 23, 2013

The 2009 Digital Britain Report described data as ‘an innovation currency’ and ‘the lifeblood of the knowledge economy.’  We are now in 2013 and while there is tremendous buzz around open data in general, open health data is definitely lagging behind. Read More »

Researchers Call For Open Access To Autism Diagnostic Tools

Sarah DeWeerdt | Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) | June 24, 2013

Most of the world’s children live in low- and middle-income countries. Yet few epidemiological studies of autism prevalence have been conducted in these countries, and little is known about how the symptoms of autism vary from culture to culture. Read More »

RowdMap, Inc. Speaks at Health:Further Summit on Creating High-Value Care from Open Health Data

Press Release | RowdMap, Inc. | August 16, 2016

Joshua Rosenthal, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder at RowdMap, Inc., will be speaking on how health plans and physicians and hospitals create high-value care with open data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), thirty cents of every dollar goes to low-value care, or care that has higher risks and costs but does not produce better outcomes. According to researchers, if low-value care were removed, there would be more than enough care to cover the population...

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