HHS and Institute of Medicine Promote Community Health Data Initiative
By Todd Park
The Community Health Data Initiative is launched in a Forum at the Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C. - June 2, 2010.
Under the initiative, HHS health data will be made freely available so that software developers can create innovative applications and make the data more useful for consumers and communities. At the June 2 event, Secretary Sebelius explains the initiative, and early developers demonstrated their new applications. See more at the HHS OpenGov website http://www.hhs.gov/open/datasets/communityhealthdata.html.
The live webchat has now ended. Recorded video will be posted at http://www.hhs.gov/open/datasets/initiative_launch.html
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Great plans and initiative for complete health awareness! It is truly a major approach in order to make Americans aware of importance of health care performances. This strategy is properly planned out with definitely segregating the categories according to gender, race, income and geographical dimensions. Along with offering the detailed database, an additional effort of providing regional and county level Medicare prevalence would serve extremely beneficial to the users. This is a huge approach and with such separate categories that would seem to be less complicated, even though it is. Online offering would make it easier for people to restore the health data sets, and in case of any updates, minor changes would be saved. Paper work is reduced. Also, a very innovative promotional step is taken by adding in reference of multiple online websites meant for different business other than health. Online viral games are simply super authentic. Starting off these new health care measures would develop great awareness and remarkably minimize the existing troubles of people. Regards, Paul Zand