Blog Entries
 By Steven Randazzo On Monday, May 20, 2013 - 3:07pm
13 days 15 hours and 59 minutes. As I write this, that is how much time is left before the start of Health Datapalooza IV. Over the past 2 weeks things have gone from a steady pace to an all out fever pitch. We have over 1,100 tech developers, health care innovators, entrepreneurs and government officials registered; we have our keynote speakers like Dr. Delos Cosgrove from the Cleveland Clinic and Jonathan Bush from athenahealth on deck to discuss the potential and big uses of data. Read more » |
 By Damon Davis On Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:10am
Yesterday, President Obama signed the Executive Order Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information that provides new guidelines for federal officials to assist in making government data more accessible and usable through digital formatting methods. This step follows the Administration’s prior actions in its Open Government and Digital Services Strategies that began an emphasis on making more federal data available, and enhanced access to it through machine-to-machine interactions. This announcement was made during President Obama’s visit to Austin, Texas where he visited an information technology incubator and emphasized the economic development opportunities emerging from making federal data available to entrepreneurs. Secretary Sebelius and Deputy Secretary Corr have led our open government activities and are deeply committed to continuing our progress to use data to improve health and healthcare. Read more » |
 By David Eddy On Friday, April 26, 2013 - 1:55pm
For at least 50 years there has been a fundamental imbalance in healthcare – the growth of tests and treatments has far outstripped our ability to decide the best ways to use them. It’s not because we’re stupid. It’s because until recently we haven’t had the information needed to make the decisions. That gap is now being closed. A major factor is the explosive growth in available data and tools for analyze them. Stimulated in large part by the Affordable Care Act, they will help decision-makers understand the consequences – the benefits, harms, and costs – of the thousands of different choices providers, administrators, and policymakers face every day. Read more » |
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By Steven Randazzo On Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 3:55pm
In the video below, hear from Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, and what he thinks about the upcoming Health Datapalooza and how health data is transforming health care. In the next video hear from Kevin Merritt, CEO of Socrata. Kevin briefly discusses the growing open data environment, the role of developers and engineers in it and tells you where you can go access and experiment with some of the data. Socrata is a Seattle-based cloud software company, focused exclusively on democratizing access to government data and is one of the sponsors for this year's Code-a-Palooza. Read more » |
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By Steven Randazzo On Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 3:53pm
After careful deliberation, an expert panel of judges has selected the five finalist teams that will continue to compete for $100,000 during the 2013 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge – Prove It! Congratulations to the finalists! AllazoEngine Allazo Health is a healthcare analytics company that solves the problem of medication non-adherence for people with diabetes. The AllazoEngine leverages existing member data to both anticipate which patients will not take their medications and to predict the most effective interventions to influence each of those patients to take their medication. Connect & Coach™ Connect & Coach™ enables cost effective regular interaction between Registered Dietitians (RD) and Certified Diabetes Educators (CDE), and their clients. Designed for the retail supermarket or pharmacy setting, Connect & Coach™ is the first hybrid clinical & consumer application for RD’s & CDE’s to perform Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) and Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) services in the community where it’s needed. Read more » |