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The Dynamics of Opening Government Data

Governments around the world are working to advance open government principles in a way that responds to their own unique context. One way they are doing this is by developing the appropriate policies and management practices that allow them to open their government data by taking full advantage of the increasing power of information and communication technologies. Read More »

The Dynamics of Opening Government Data

According to a white paper released this week by the Center for Technology in Government entitled "The Dynamics of Opening Government Data", government agencies in the U.S. and around the world are working to advance 'open government' principles and use 'open data'  in more effective ways to better serve the public. Read More »

The Exciting $3 Trillion Promise of Open Data

Peter Coy | BloombergBusinessWeek | October 29, 2013

The world is awash in data that’s in the public domain but mostly goes to waste. Read More »

US Supreme Court to decide if companies can patent Human Genes

Karen McVeigh | The Guardian | April 11, 2013

The US supreme court will hear oral arguments next week to decide whether companies can patent human genes, in a landmark case which could alter the course of US medical research and the battle against diseases such as breast and ovarian cancer. Read More »

White House to 'open source' Data.Gov as the Open Government Data Platform

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | December 5, 2011

As 2011 comes to an end, there are 28 international open data platforms in the open government community. By the end of 2012, code from new "Data.gov-in-a-box" may help many more countries to stand up their own platforms. A partnership between the United States and India on open government has borne fruit: progress on making the open data platform Data.gov open source.

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WHO Europe: Public Health Databases

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe comprises 53 countries, covering a vast geographical region from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. It is made up of public health, scientific and technical experts from Member States. Read More »

WHO Global Health Observatory

The WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) provides data and analyses on major global health issues and priorities.The GHO data repository contains an extensive list of indicators, which can be selected by theme or through a multi-dimension query functionality. It is the World Health Organization's (WHO) main health data & statistics repository.

WHO Global Health Observatory & Other 'Open Data' Resources

Interested in learning more about 'open data' healthcare resources  around the globe? Check out the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Health Observatory.  This WHO information portal provides access to 'open' data, statistical analyses, and reports for monitoring the global health situation. Read More »

WHO Report on "World Health Statistics 2013"

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a report entitled "World Health Statistics 2013". It contains the latest annual compilation of health-related data by WHO for its 194 member states. This annual report provides a wealth of information on global public health and includes a summary of the progress being made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Read More »

Why Opening Up Clinical Trials Data Is Good For Pharma Companies

Glyn Moody | TechDirt | November 5, 2013

Earlier this year we wrote about how AbbVie, the pharma company spun out of Abbott Laboratories, had gone to court to stop the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from releasing clinical trials information about one of its drugs. Read More »

World Bank Health Data

The World Bank maintains a web site containing health related data sets and statistics on national health systems, disease prevention, reproductive health, nutrition, population, and population dynamics. Read More »

YODA Project: 'Opening Up' Clinical Trials & Research Practices

Many patients and their physicians often make treatment decisions with access to only a fraction of the relevant clinical research data because details about many clinical studies or clinical trials are never made available in published biomedical literature. The YODA Project may change this. Read More »

Open Data Institute Annual Summit 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 29, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
London
United Kingdom

Open Data Institute Annual Summit 2013 - The daytime sessions will present an opportunity to hear inspiring stories from expert speakers. In the evening attendees are invited to celebrate Open Data’s impact on government, business and society.

The summit will bring together an international line-up of acclaimed experts including World Wide Web inventor and ODI founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It will be followed by the ODI’s Gala Dinner that will enable participants to connect and network with the leading players in open data. Read More »

Health Datapalooza 2014

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 1, 2014 (All day) - June 3, 2014 (All day)
Location: 
Washington, DC
United States

More than 2,000 experts convene in nation’s capital; demand access, use of health data to propel innovation

The Health Data Consortium (HDC),a non-profit advocacy and membership organization dedicated to mobilizing health data to transform the U.S. health care system, announced keynote speakers for Health Datapalooza 2014, being held at the Marriott Wardman Park on June 1-3 in Washington, D.C.

Speakers include:

  • Steven Brill, CEO and co-founder, Journalism Online LLC and author of TIME Magazine’s controversial cover feature “Bitter Pill”
  • Jonathan Bush, CEO and co-founder, athenahealth
  • Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
  • Elliott Fisher, Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
  • Atul Gawande, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and New Yorker contributor...

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