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Data Portal India
Data Portal India is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Ministries/Department/Organizations of Government of India to publish datasets, and applications for public use. Read More »
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Data.gov Launches New Catalog and APIs
Data.gov is launching two innovations today to mark both the anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy and the fourth anniversary of Data.gov. First is a comprehensive listing of the application programming interfaces (APIs) that were released from across the federal government as part of the Digital Government Strategy. Data.gov is also launching a new data catalog on an open source data management system called CKAN Read More »
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Docs split over making Medicare data public
A new poll conducted by the American College of Physician Executives has found that doctors are almost evenly divided on whether or not Medicare payment data should be made public. Read More »
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EuroStat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union (EU) situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to be the leading provider of high quality statistics on Europe.This includes health statistics such as: Read More »
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EuroStat Public Health Data
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union (EU) situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions, including the healthcare sector.. Read More »
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Federal Shutdown: We Miss Our Data
One of the potential benefits of the government's partial shutdown is a new-found appreciation for many of the federally provided services Americans take for granted. Read More »
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G8 Commitment to Open Data
The news that G8 leaders have signed an Open Data Charter, pledging to “establish an expectation that all government data be published openly by default,” will be music to the ears of many entrepreneurs. Read More »
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Gartner: Big Data & Open Data will generate billions in business
The rise of big data—a broad term that encompasses the mountain of information flowing into businesses—has posed particular challenges for organizations of all sizes, and investments in big data infrastructure and management is projected to drive $28 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012, according to an Oct. 17 research report from IT analytics firm Gartner. Read More »
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Genomes Released of NCI-60 Cancer Cell Lines
July 17, 2013 | On Monday, researchers released the largest database of cancer-related genetic variations—the genomes of the 60 cancer cell lines represented by the NCI-60 list. The project was published online in Cancer Research. Read More »
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Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Project
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is a systematic, scientific effort by a collaborative of researchers worldwide to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time. Read More »
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Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
The Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation (IMHE) maintains the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), a catalog of the world's health and demographic data. You can use the GHDx to research population census data, surveys, registries, indicators and estimates, administrative health data, and financial data related to health. You can: Read More »
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Global Health Gateway
The Kaiser Family Foundation's Global Health Gateway serves as an online clearinghouse for the latest data and information on both the U.S. and global health. It brings together original data sources, policy analysis, and research from the Foundation. It also provides the new daily news synthesis, features fact sheets, country-level data through Kaiser's Global Health Facts, and more.
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Google Public Alerts
Google launched an open data platform in 2013 to share information on natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and floods. The system can be used by governments and other organizations to build localized crisis response systems. The system can be accessed on personal computers or mobile devices to find information such as the typhoon path, affected areas and nearby places of refuge. Read More »
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Google Public Health Data
Google's Public Data Explorer makes large public data sets on healthcare, economics, and other subjects readily accessible and easy to explore and visualize.
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Growing Use of GIS Maps by the Government & Healthcare Organizations
Geoplatform.gov is up and running and growing more robust with every passing month. This resource is hosted and supported by the General Services Administration (GSA). This is the same U.S. government agency that also hosts the government's national repository of government data sets known as Data.gov. The Geospatial Platform is a web-based solution for providing shared and trusted geospatial data, services, and applications for use by the public and by government agencies and partners to meet their mission needs. It was developed by the member agencies of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) in collaboration with public and private sector partners and stakeholders.
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