Colleagues,
Thank you to MedTech-IQ member
Ronald J. Pion MD for this link
to The Community Health Data Initiative which was launched in a Forum at the
IOM (Institute of Medicine), Washington, D.C. - June 2, 2010.
The Forum launch by U.S. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Institute of Medicine
President Harvey Fineberg can be seen here in
video ...
... At the heart of the Initiative will be increasing amounts of federally
generated community health data being made publicly available, in easily accessible and useful formats ...
... by the end of 2010, a new
HHS Health Indicators Warehouse will be
deployed online, providing currently available and new HHS data on national, state, regional, and county health performance – on indicators such as rates of smoking, obesity, diabetes, access to healthy food,
utilization of health care services, etc. – in an
easy-to-use “one stop data shop.”... the Community Health
Data Initiative (CHDI) will turn to Web application developers, mobile
phone applications, social media, and other cutting-edge information technologies to “put public health data to work.”
..
... See more at the HHS OpenGov website.:http://www.hhs.gov/open/
... See the HHS Open Government Plan here: http://www.hhs.gov/open/plan/opengovernmentplan/index.html
... HHS accepts comments at: http://newmedia.hhs.gov/standards/com...
ENJOY!
CC