HDC Affiliate highlight: Colorado
In this blog post, we continue to highlight our HDC Affiliates. Below we hear from our Colorado Affiliate, The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC). See what Bob Kershner, Director of...
View ArticleKudos to health data innovator, iTriage!
One of Health Data Consortium’s goals is to support entrepreneurs in driving innovations that help librate health data to improve health and health care. We’d like to call out one such entrepreneur,...
View ArticleCalling Ohio startups! New season: Innov8 for Health
Calling all startups that support the triple aim of better health, better care, and lower costs! Please apply and share: Innov8 for Health Fall 2013. Health Data Consortium’s Ohio affiliate, Viable...
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Introducing the Merck | Heritage Provider Network Innovation Challenge
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Merck | Heritage Provider Network Innovation Challenge, presenting awards of $240,000 in non-dilutive capital to the teams who create the best solutions...
View ArticleWinners announced – RWJF’s Games to Generate Data Challenge
Our friends at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation just announced the winners of their challenge: Games to Generate Data. Prizes in the competition totaled $200,000, and the winners created an...
View ArticleHDC Member Highlight: Noridian
Last month Noridian Healthcare Solutions joined Health Data Consortium as one of our newest members. Noridian provides comprehensive solutions to government healthcare payers in the areas of care...
View ArticleThe New HHS Health Data Strategy and Execution Plan
In keeping with the White House’s Open Government Initiative, we’ve got news from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on a new effort to open up more health data. Damon Davis, Director...
View ArticleHealth Data Consortium “Putting Health Data to Work our States and...
Friends: This past Friday, we were delighted to hold our first full-day forum specifically focused on health data in states, counties, cities, and communities at 1871, a digital co-working space in the...
View ArticleHDC Member Highlight: Merck
Last month Merck joined Health Data Consortium as one of our newest members. Merck is a global health care leader working to help the world be well. Through their prescription medicines, vaccines,...
View ArticleHealth Datapalooza 2014: Submissions Now Open
Submissions are now open for speakers and apps demos for Health Datapalooza 2014! Submissions are now being accepted for abstracts and apps demos for Health Datapalooza 2014! This year we are featuring...
View ArticleNew York State releases Open Data Handbook
On November 6, the State of New York released its Open Data Handbook, which provides guidelines for identifying, reviewing, and prioritizing publishable state data for publication. We asked Dr. Nirav...
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Infographic Competition winners highlight Kentucky health issues
Last month, HDC CEO Dwayne Spradlin served as a keynote at the “Data! Fostering Health Innovation in Kentucky and Ohio” conference, a day of fast-moving presentations that showcased novel and effective...
View ArticleFrom Analog to Digital Medicine
Gary A. Puckrein is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Minority Quality Forum. In 1998 he founded the Forum’s predecessor program (the National Minority Health Month Foundation) to...
View ArticleHDC’s Open Health Data Wish List for 2014
In our efforts to advocate for open health data, HDC was recently given the opportunity to comment on unmet health data needs as they relate to government agencies and thoughts for broader health data...
View ArticleNew York State Holds its First Health Data Code-a-thon
The Health Data Consortium recently attended New York State’s Health Data Code-a-thon, which took place on December 19-20 in Troy, NY. CEO Dwayne Spradlin assisted in the judging of the Code-a-thon...
View ArticleCommunity Care Pathways and Population Health
Joe Flesh is the President of Purple Binder, an organization that collects, presents, and analyzes social service data to link policymakers, social service professionals, and individuals seeking help....
View ArticleInnovators in Health Data, brought to you by HDC and PwC
The national health landscape is undergoing significant change, from evolving policies and standards to the growth of open data, public-private partnerships, and new technologies leading to rapid and...
View ArticleJoin our webinar with HHS Health Data Initative Director Damon Davis
On Monday, February 10 at 1PM EST, we will be joined by Damon Davis, Director of the Health Data Initiative at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to present our first webinar of the...
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Worth a Thousand Words: CHCF’s Guide to Data Visualization
Earlier this month, in collaboration with Forum One Communications, HDC founding member Calfornia HealthCare Foundation produced a guide called “Worth a Thousand Words: How to Display Health Data,”...
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Innovators in Health Data: Health Data’s Adolescence
INTRODUCTION by Abdul Shaikh & Gus Mutscher It is our great pleasure to introduce Susannah Fox, Associate Director at the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, as our first...
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