Open data group steps up from Health Datapalooza

" ... In his first few months since starting as executive director of the Health Data Consortium, Chris Boone has taken the group known mainly for staging the Health Datapalooza happenings into the realm of serious Capitol Hill lobbying. But Boone, 35 -- a former health IT consultant and executive with a specialty in informatics and a former member of the federal Health IT Policy Committee -- doesn't want to call it lobbying, even though the consortium hired a registered lobbyist in 2014, Lauren Ellis. 'We want to educate folks,' Boone, who joined the consortium in October, told SearchHealthIT. "We represent the intersection of health data and policy, the policy that drives innovation ..."