Community Health Data Initiative

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are working on a major event around innovation and health data for which there will be a public launch on June 2^nd with remarks from Secretary Sebelius, HHS CTO Todd Park and White House CTO Aneesh Chopra.  HHS and IOM have never done an event like this before. There will be major tech companies doing public launches of their work using HHS data.

The webcast will be hosted in 2 spots:

1.       http://www.hhs.gov/open/ or http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=9347

2.       Meeting information: http://www.iom.edu/communityhealthdata

3.       HHS Blog Post: http://www.hhs.gov/open/discussion/chdi.html

4.       RWJF Blog Post: http://rwjfblogs.typepad.com/pioneer/2010/05/introducing-data.html

5.       Twitter: #healthapps

It’s a great sign that the government is innovating around open health data. Check it out!

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.