Innovators Look To Bridge the Gap Between Open Data and Consumers - iHealthBeat

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-04-11

Summary:

"Efforts to boost health care transparency have unlocked thousands of data sets, but the sheer amount and density of information available has made it difficult for consumers to use in meaningful ways. This gap has created a market for innovators to step in and develop easy-to-use tools that leverage open data. The federal government in many ways has been leading the effort to make information on health care cost and quality available to the public. In 2009, the Obama administration launched data.gov, an open-source website where the public can access thousands of data sets on various topics. As of April, the site contained 820 health care-related data sets. Further, the Affordable Care Act's Sunshine Act required CMS to create an Open Payments System that aims to boost transparency by making public payments that health care providers have received from drugmakers and medical device manufacturers. Then, in 2013, President Obama issued an executive order that required federal information to be open and machine readable in an effort to make the data easy to access, find and use. Most recently, the government launched Healthdata.gov, which aims to make high-value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers and policymakers in an effort to improve health outcomes. According to the site, more than 1,900 health care data sets on topics ranging from Medicare to patient safety are available ..."

Link:

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/insight/2015/innovators-look-to-bridge-the-gap-between-open-data-and-consumers

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oa.new oa.comment oa.psi oa.government oa.public_health oa.healthdata.gov oa.usa oa.data

Date tagged:

04/11/2015, 15:24

Date published:

04/11/2015, 11:34