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'Open Data' & Healthcare

Even as the Open Data and Open Access movements gain momentum, there are still many organizations fighting to reverse the process, e.g. for-profit publishing houses and certain not-for-profit education and research organizations that depend on fees charged to access the data to fund their operations. 

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'Open Data' Business Models & Strategies in Healthcare

The U.S., U.K., Kenya, India, France, G8 Nations…  Everyone seems to be catching 'Open Data' Fever!  Companies across the U.S. and around the world are all starting to figure out business models and strategies that will allow them to cash in on the 'open data' movement. Read More »

'Open Systems' for Consumers Comparison Shopping for Healthcare

Americans can comparison shop online for almost anything today. This ought to apply to the healthcare industry as well. How much are hospitals or clinics charging for medical procedures and other healthcare services? Where is the online Amazon, Best Buy, or Wal-Mart site that you can go to and check the prices before heading off to see your doctor. Read More »

12 Days of Open Data to Get You Through the New Year

Matthew Rumsey & Peter Olsen-Phillips | Sunlight Foundation | December 20, 2013

In the weeks since Nov. 30, when federal agencies were supposed to comply with President Barack Obama’s open data executive order by providing a list of all the data they are holding, it has already become clear that the executive order is unearthing treasure troves of information that previously haven't been available or accessible. Read More »

ACA & Open Data Could Drive Health IT Innovation

Brian Horowitz | eWeek | May 29, 2013

"Data that supports medical decision making and collaboration, dovetailing with new tools in the Affordable Care Act [ACA], are spurring the innovation necessary to deliver improved health care Read More »

AHCA Long Term Care Data & Statistics

The American Health Care Association (AHCA) collects and provides free access to data on long term care facilities and activities across the U.S.  The Association aims to provide data & statistics that will paint a clear picture to the public and policymakers about the state of skilled nursing centers.

Big Data In 2014: 6 Bold Predictions

Jeff Bertolucci | InformationWeek | December 23, 2013

How will big data evolve in 2014? The future is anyone's guess, of course, but we thought we'd compile a tasty holiday assortment of prognostications from executives working in the big data trenches. Read More »

Big data in healthcare: how comfortable are you in your role as 'research patient'?

Anja Kueppers & Kyle McKinnon | Deutsche Welle | November 6, 2013

The UK's National Health Service [NHS] is turning to IT in a big way, with plans to be completely paperless by 2018. More significantly, it wants to make much of that massive data supply transparent.

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canSAR Database

canSAR is an integrated knowledge-base that brings together multidisciplinary data across biology, chemistry, pharmacology, structural biology, cellular networks and clinical annotations, and applies machine learning approaches to provide drug-discovery useful predictions. Read More »

CHCF: The Data Stops Here

Andy Krackov | iHealthBeat | August 19, 2013

The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), through its Free the Data initiative, is focused on finding ways to harness data to better inform health policymaking... Read More »

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 »

Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW)

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) maintains the Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW). It provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. Read More »

Data Hub

The Data Hub is a community-run catalogue of useful sets of data on the Internet. You can collect links here to data from around the web for yourself and others to use, or search for data that others have collected. Read More »

Data miners strike gold on copyright

Paul Jump | Times Higher Education | August 22, 2013

In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes. Read More »