Tagged: Health Datapalooza

Themes for the 8th annual Health Datapalooza include consumer market places, value based care and health care redesign through data.

The finalists of the first international Open Science Prize competition were announced today. The Open Science Prize is a collaborative effort between the National Institutes of Health, UK-based Wellcome Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute designed to encourage and recognize the development of new tools, products, and services that use open digital content to help solve pressing public health and biomedical research challenges.

You know that Health Datapalooza (HDP) is where U.S.-based patients, providers, payers, journalists, policy wonks and coders go to network and connect around a geeky love for health data. But did you know that this year's HDP also includes 22 speakers from five different countries who are driving health-data innovations around the world?

Two years ago, when I attended my first Health Datapalooza, much of the hallway chatter focused on the dearth of data available to help patients and doctors make better health decisions. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had just started releasing massive data sets, but no one really knew how much data CMS was willing to release or how useful those data sets might really be. Information and tools from private insurers were few and far between.