This document provides an overview of open health data initiatives in the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, and France. It highlights several projects in each country that utilize open government health data to create applications, tools, and services. These initiatives aim to improve transparency, spur innovation, and empower citizens and patients. The document also discusses some of the economic and social impacts and challenges of open health data.
mHealth Israel_ Digital Medicine_Whitepaper_The Digital Medicine Chrystal BallLevi Shapiro
The Digital Medicine Chrystal Ball: Unlocking the Future of Real-Time, Precise, Effective Healthcare. How will new digital technologies impact disease management and healthcare over the next decade? How will new digital technologies impact disease management and healthcare over the next decade?
How a U.S. COVID-19 Data Registry Fuels Global ResearchHealth Catalyst
In addition to driving COVID-19 understanding within the United States, a national disease registry is informing research beyond U.S. borders. Clinicians with the Singapore Ministry of Healthcare Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) have used Health Catalyst Touchstone® COVID-19 data to develop a machine learning tool that helps predict the likelihood of COVID-19 mortality. With this national data set that leverages deep aggregated EHR data, the MOHT accessed the research-grade data it needed to build a machine-learning algorithm that predicts risk of death from COVID-19. The registry-informed prediction model was accurate enough to stand up to comparisons in the published literature and promises to help inform vaccine research and, ultimately, allocation of vaccines within populations.
HAS 20 Virtual: Featuring a World-Class Lineup of Keynote SpeakersHealth Catalyst
The Healthcare Analytics Summit (HAS®) is going virtual this year but will still feature the same world-class experience you expect from HAS–including world-class keynote speakers. HAS 20 Virtual will showcase well-known visionaries and C-level executives from leading healthcare organizations. The summit will feature speakers who’ve battled COVID-19 in the trenches as well as other speakers adjusting to planning for the “new normal” that we all anticipate.
We’re reimagining HAS 20 in a virtual format that will be unlike any other healthcare conference you may have attended, virtual or otherwise. HAS 20 Virtual takes place September 1-3, 2020 and will feature nationally recognized keynote speakers, educational breakout sessions, and much more.
mHealth Israel_ Digital Medicine_Whitepaper_The Digital Medicine Chrystal BallLevi Shapiro
The Digital Medicine Chrystal Ball: Unlocking the Future of Real-Time, Precise, Effective Healthcare. How will new digital technologies impact disease management and healthcare over the next decade? How will new digital technologies impact disease management and healthcare over the next decade?
How a U.S. COVID-19 Data Registry Fuels Global ResearchHealth Catalyst
In addition to driving COVID-19 understanding within the United States, a national disease registry is informing research beyond U.S. borders. Clinicians with the Singapore Ministry of Healthcare Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) have used Health Catalyst Touchstone® COVID-19 data to develop a machine learning tool that helps predict the likelihood of COVID-19 mortality. With this national data set that leverages deep aggregated EHR data, the MOHT accessed the research-grade data it needed to build a machine-learning algorithm that predicts risk of death from COVID-19. The registry-informed prediction model was accurate enough to stand up to comparisons in the published literature and promises to help inform vaccine research and, ultimately, allocation of vaccines within populations.
HAS 20 Virtual: Featuring a World-Class Lineup of Keynote SpeakersHealth Catalyst
The Healthcare Analytics Summit (HAS®) is going virtual this year but will still feature the same world-class experience you expect from HAS–including world-class keynote speakers. HAS 20 Virtual will showcase well-known visionaries and C-level executives from leading healthcare organizations. The summit will feature speakers who’ve battled COVID-19 in the trenches as well as other speakers adjusting to planning for the “new normal” that we all anticipate.
We’re reimagining HAS 20 in a virtual format that will be unlike any other healthcare conference you may have attended, virtual or otherwise. HAS 20 Virtual takes place September 1-3, 2020 and will feature nationally recognized keynote speakers, educational breakout sessions, and much more.
The Top Three 2020 Healthcare Trends and How to PrepareHealth Catalyst
After a tumultuous 2019, healthcare organizations are pivoting to make sense of the latest changes and prepare to face the top 2020 healthcare trends:
Consumerism—Can health systems respond to the consumer demands of better access and price transparency?
Financial Performance—With mergers, acquisitions, and private sector companies entering the healthcare arena, how will traditional hospitals and clinics compete?
Social Issues—How will health organizations respond to the opioid crisis and consider social determinants of health as part of the care process to provide comprehensive treatment?
As health systems struggle to survive amidst constant change, they must look forward and proactively prepare for what’s to come in 2020.
In July 2018, NITI Aayog published a Strategy and Approach document on the National Health Stack. The document underscored the need for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and laid down the technology framework for implementing the Ayushman Bharat programme which is meant to provide UHC to the bottom 500 million of the country. While the Health Stack provides a technological backbone for delivering affordable healthcare to all Indians, we, at iSPIRT, believe that it has the potential to go beyond that and to completely transform the healthcare ecosystem in the country. We are indeed headed for a health leapfrog in India! Over the last few months, we have worked extensively to understand the current challenges in the industry as well as the role and design of individual components of the Health Stack. In this post, we elaborate on the leapfrog that will be enabled by blending this technology with care delivery.
The Fight Against COVID-19: A National Patient RegistryHealth Catalyst
Comprehensive COVID-19 understanding is a critical asset for adapting to pandemic needs, directing resources, developing vaccines, and planning for surges in a timely, informed manner. Because common barriers have impeded the progress of comprehensive data repositories, researchers have relied on surveillance data from population-level viral testing, which has proven insufficient. To significantly advance COVID-19 understanding, the medical community needs a digital patient registry that captures national-level data on how the virus impacts individuals differently according to comorbidities, lifestyle factors, and more. These essential insights lie in real-world evidence, which a registry can only deliver when it applies value sets to leverage clinical and claims data from health systems across the United States.
In this report we set out ten provocative statements predicting the world of 2020. Each prediction is articulated and brought to life through a series of portraits which imagine how patients, healthcare professionals and life sciences organizations might behave in this new world. Our predictions lean more towards an optimistic view of the future, although we organized that many in our industry are organized about the constraints and therefore pace of change. We describe the big trends rolled forward to 2020 and some of the constraints that will need to be overcome.
We also provide examples and evidence, based on the here and now, that show that the predictions are perfectly plausible, perhaps inspiring and surprising!
Our industry is changing quickly – requiring a bold response that is often difficult to implement – and yet organizations struggle to understand how to respond effectively and build a sense of urgency. We hope this report creates rich dialogue and enables a move to action.– we have had enormous fun discussing these predictions and sharing our experiences. We hope you have the same experience within your own organizations as you peruse this report and reflect on your current situation and future scenarios.
Lean Healthcare: 6 Methodologies for Improvement from Dr. Brent JamesHealth Catalyst
The survival of healthcare organizations depends on applying lean principles. Organizations that adopt lean principles can reduce waste while improving the quality of care. By applying stringent clinical data measurement approaches to routine care delivery, healthcare systems identify best practice protocols and incorporate those into the clinical workflow. Data from these best practices are applied through continuous-learning loop that enables teams across the organization to update and improve protocols–ultimately reducing waste, lowering costs, and improving access to care.
This executive report based on a presentation by Dr. Brent James at a regional medical center, covers the following:
1. How lean healthcare principles can help improve the quality of care.
2. The steps healthcare organizations need to take to create a continuous-learning loop.
3. How a lean approach creates financial leverage by eliminating waste and improving net operating margins and ROI.
Architecture Before Experience - EuroIA Amsterdam 2016 Bogdan Stanciu
Spending $9.715 per capita (The World Bank, 2013), the United States sits on top of the world of total health expenditures, but ranks only 33rd in population health. With 165.169 mHealth applications available for download to more than two-thirds of Americans who own a smartphone, one might think the digital revolution is going to cure everyone. However, the healthcare industry is failing the care model. Facing disruption in an open, competitive marketplace, the big insurance and big pharma, along with the hospital-based medical systems are trying to ride the wave of digital transformation in the most archaic way: adding a digital silo to their organisational chart. Battling conflicting workflows, poor integrations of a wide range of applications, and legacy policies and infrastructure, digital is as challenged as its peers in the marketing, patient experience, physician relationships, and consumer product departments to produce a comprehensive strategy for transformation. The good news is that medical systems are just that: systems. And like every other systems in the world, they can be designed.
A New Era of Personalized Medicine: The Power of Analytics and AIHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is looking towards an era of personalized medicine in which providers customize treatments for the individual patient. Realizing this tailored level of care s a new level of data volume and analytics and AI capabilities that, while novel to healthcare, other industries are thriving in. Choosing the right role models as healthcare works towards the analytics- and AI-driven territory of personalized medicine will guide informed strategies and establish best practices.
With experience and expertise in these key areas, the military, aerospace, and automotive industries can serve as healthcare’s best examples:
1. The human cognitive processes of complex decision making.
2. The digitization of their industries, with the “health” of their assets as key drivers.
3. Operating in a “big data” ecosystem.
Customers routinely buy products for all sorts of uses. A statutory definition of a medical
device based on whether and how customers actually use products for medical purposes
would be utterly impossible to administer, and frankly unfair. The statute potentially imposes significant regulatory obligations on the seller of a product, and making those obligations depend on the whim of the customer would take compliance completely outside of the control of the seller. So instead, under the statute, it is the seller’s intent with regard to how the customer should use the product that controls how the device is regulated, not how the customer actually does use the product.
Source: http://mobihealthnews.com/wp-content/pdf/FDA_Regulation_of_Mobile_Health_2013.pdf
Many Health Systems Are Failing the LGBTQ+ Community—Two Ways to ImproveHealth Catalyst
LGBTQ+ community members face unique challenges when accessing healthcare. Lack of knowledge among providers about the LGBTQ+ community leads to stigma, discrimination, and stereotypes that result in higher risk for cancers and substance abuse and higher rates of smoking. Poor health outcomes occur for multiple reasons—clinicians don’t know the best way to collect accurate health information and LGBTQ+ members don’t feel safe sharing personal health information.
The best way for health systems to improve healthcare delivery for the LGBTQ+ community is to rework the way they collect sexual orientation/gender identity data and educate clinicians about the health disparities LGBTQ+ members face.
Using Data to Ensure a Safe Return to School During COVID-19Health Catalyst
With limited information about the novel coronavirus, industries are scrambling to create an effective response to more quickly and safely return to life before the pandemic. Data has proven to be the best way to capture information about the developing virus. With access to the latest, comprehensive COVID-19 data, decision makers in any industry—from education to healthcare—can develop a sustainable, viable approach to pandemic-era operations.
In the education sector, leaders can use accurate, up-to-date COVID-19 data to make decisions about implementing in-person or virtual learning. When states across the country instituted virtual learning as a stopgap until it was safe to resume in-person education, the most vulnerable students experienced the greatest disadvantages. As these disparities grow with continued virtual learning, it is an imperative that leaders have access to the latest coronavirus data to rapidly return to face-to-face learning.
Customer Journey Analytics: Cracking the Patient Engagement Challenge for PayersHealth Catalyst
Customer journey analytics uses machine learning and big data to track and analyze when and through what channels customers interact with an organization, with an aim to influence behavior (e.g., buying behaviors among retail customers). Similarly, healthcare organizations want to influence health-related behaviors, such a taking medication as prescribed and not smoking, to improve outcomes and lower the cost of care. In a partnership with an analytics services provider, a payer organization is leveraging customer journey analytics among healthcare consumers to identify the best opportunities and channels for patient outreach. With this analytics-driven engagement strategy, the payer has found an opportunity to significantly improve patient engagement—a predicted overall increase from 18 percent to 31 percent.
The Digitization of Healthcare: Why the Right Approach Matters and Five Steps...Health Catalyst
While many industries are leveraging digital transformation to accelerate their productivity and quality, healthcare ranks among the least digitized sectors. Healthcare data is largely incomplete when it comes to fully representing a patient’s health and doesn’t adequately support diagnoses and treatment, risk prediction, and long-term health care plans. But even with the obvious urgency for increased healthcare digitization, the industry must raise this trajectory with sensitivity to the impacts on clinicians and patients. The right digital strategy will not only aim for more comprehensive information on patient health, but also leverage data to empower and engage the people involved.
Health systems can follow five guidelines to digitize in a sustainable, impactful way:
Achieve and maintain clinician and patient engagement.
Adopt a modern commercial digital platform.
Digitize the assets (the patients) and the processes.
Understand the importance of data to drive AI insights.
Prioritize data volume.
Held each year in Boston, Medical Informatics World connects more than 400 healthcare, biomedical science, health informatics, and IT leaders to navigate emerging trends and opportunities in the evolving industry. The event responds to the challenges in collaborating and maximizing the benefit of enabling technologies with inspiring plenary keynotes combined with focused expert-led presentations and discussions. Coverage includes population health management, predictive analytics, payer-provider-pharma data collaborations, patient care and engagement, mobile and wearable technologies, care delivery models, enterprise hospital information systems, clinical decision support, error and readmission reduction, and healthcare data security. The 2015 program features six conference tracks, two interactive dinner workshops and six plenary keynote presentations, providing attendees with the connections, tools and strategies for taking their research and care delivery to the next level. Learn more at http://www.medicalinformaticsworld.com
Survey Points to Major Burnout Concerns Among CliniciansHealth Catalyst
According to a November 2019 survey, 62 percent of clinicians and other healthcare professionals view burnout as a major problem industrywide. When asked for the best way to address clinician burnout problems, the most popular solution was less-complex workflows, which is the aim of emerging point-of-care analytics solutions.
Responses to additional questions reveal more about clinician burnout experience and views on the technology designed to help:
At your organization, how big of a problem is clinician burnout?
What is the best way to solve clinician burnout problems?
What are the biggest barriers to adopting closed-loop, point-of-care analytics capabilities at your organization
What are the biggest problems arising from a lack of adopting closed-loop, point-of-care analytics capabilities?
The Top Three 2020 Healthcare Trends and How to PrepareHealth Catalyst
After a tumultuous 2019, healthcare organizations are pivoting to make sense of the latest changes and prepare to face the top 2020 healthcare trends:
Consumerism—Can health systems respond to the consumer demands of better access and price transparency?
Financial Performance—With mergers, acquisitions, and private sector companies entering the healthcare arena, how will traditional hospitals and clinics compete?
Social Issues—How will health organizations respond to the opioid crisis and consider social determinants of health as part of the care process to provide comprehensive treatment?
As health systems struggle to survive amidst constant change, they must look forward and proactively prepare for what’s to come in 2020.
In July 2018, NITI Aayog published a Strategy and Approach document on the National Health Stack. The document underscored the need for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and laid down the technology framework for implementing the Ayushman Bharat programme which is meant to provide UHC to the bottom 500 million of the country. While the Health Stack provides a technological backbone for delivering affordable healthcare to all Indians, we, at iSPIRT, believe that it has the potential to go beyond that and to completely transform the healthcare ecosystem in the country. We are indeed headed for a health leapfrog in India! Over the last few months, we have worked extensively to understand the current challenges in the industry as well as the role and design of individual components of the Health Stack. In this post, we elaborate on the leapfrog that will be enabled by blending this technology with care delivery.
The Fight Against COVID-19: A National Patient RegistryHealth Catalyst
Comprehensive COVID-19 understanding is a critical asset for adapting to pandemic needs, directing resources, developing vaccines, and planning for surges in a timely, informed manner. Because common barriers have impeded the progress of comprehensive data repositories, researchers have relied on surveillance data from population-level viral testing, which has proven insufficient. To significantly advance COVID-19 understanding, the medical community needs a digital patient registry that captures national-level data on how the virus impacts individuals differently according to comorbidities, lifestyle factors, and more. These essential insights lie in real-world evidence, which a registry can only deliver when it applies value sets to leverage clinical and claims data from health systems across the United States.
In this report we set out ten provocative statements predicting the world of 2020. Each prediction is articulated and brought to life through a series of portraits which imagine how patients, healthcare professionals and life sciences organizations might behave in this new world. Our predictions lean more towards an optimistic view of the future, although we organized that many in our industry are organized about the constraints and therefore pace of change. We describe the big trends rolled forward to 2020 and some of the constraints that will need to be overcome.
We also provide examples and evidence, based on the here and now, that show that the predictions are perfectly plausible, perhaps inspiring and surprising!
Our industry is changing quickly – requiring a bold response that is often difficult to implement – and yet organizations struggle to understand how to respond effectively and build a sense of urgency. We hope this report creates rich dialogue and enables a move to action.– we have had enormous fun discussing these predictions and sharing our experiences. We hope you have the same experience within your own organizations as you peruse this report and reflect on your current situation and future scenarios.
Lean Healthcare: 6 Methodologies for Improvement from Dr. Brent JamesHealth Catalyst
The survival of healthcare organizations depends on applying lean principles. Organizations that adopt lean principles can reduce waste while improving the quality of care. By applying stringent clinical data measurement approaches to routine care delivery, healthcare systems identify best practice protocols and incorporate those into the clinical workflow. Data from these best practices are applied through continuous-learning loop that enables teams across the organization to update and improve protocols–ultimately reducing waste, lowering costs, and improving access to care.
This executive report based on a presentation by Dr. Brent James at a regional medical center, covers the following:
1. How lean healthcare principles can help improve the quality of care.
2. The steps healthcare organizations need to take to create a continuous-learning loop.
3. How a lean approach creates financial leverage by eliminating waste and improving net operating margins and ROI.
Architecture Before Experience - EuroIA Amsterdam 2016 Bogdan Stanciu
Spending $9.715 per capita (The World Bank, 2013), the United States sits on top of the world of total health expenditures, but ranks only 33rd in population health. With 165.169 mHealth applications available for download to more than two-thirds of Americans who own a smartphone, one might think the digital revolution is going to cure everyone. However, the healthcare industry is failing the care model. Facing disruption in an open, competitive marketplace, the big insurance and big pharma, along with the hospital-based medical systems are trying to ride the wave of digital transformation in the most archaic way: adding a digital silo to their organisational chart. Battling conflicting workflows, poor integrations of a wide range of applications, and legacy policies and infrastructure, digital is as challenged as its peers in the marketing, patient experience, physician relationships, and consumer product departments to produce a comprehensive strategy for transformation. The good news is that medical systems are just that: systems. And like every other systems in the world, they can be designed.
A New Era of Personalized Medicine: The Power of Analytics and AIHealth Catalyst
Healthcare is looking towards an era of personalized medicine in which providers customize treatments for the individual patient. Realizing this tailored level of care s a new level of data volume and analytics and AI capabilities that, while novel to healthcare, other industries are thriving in. Choosing the right role models as healthcare works towards the analytics- and AI-driven territory of personalized medicine will guide informed strategies and establish best practices.
With experience and expertise in these key areas, the military, aerospace, and automotive industries can serve as healthcare’s best examples:
1. The human cognitive processes of complex decision making.
2. The digitization of their industries, with the “health” of their assets as key drivers.
3. Operating in a “big data” ecosystem.
Customers routinely buy products for all sorts of uses. A statutory definition of a medical
device based on whether and how customers actually use products for medical purposes
would be utterly impossible to administer, and frankly unfair. The statute potentially imposes significant regulatory obligations on the seller of a product, and making those obligations depend on the whim of the customer would take compliance completely outside of the control of the seller. So instead, under the statute, it is the seller’s intent with regard to how the customer should use the product that controls how the device is regulated, not how the customer actually does use the product.
Source: http://mobihealthnews.com/wp-content/pdf/FDA_Regulation_of_Mobile_Health_2013.pdf
Many Health Systems Are Failing the LGBTQ+ Community—Two Ways to ImproveHealth Catalyst
LGBTQ+ community members face unique challenges when accessing healthcare. Lack of knowledge among providers about the LGBTQ+ community leads to stigma, discrimination, and stereotypes that result in higher risk for cancers and substance abuse and higher rates of smoking. Poor health outcomes occur for multiple reasons—clinicians don’t know the best way to collect accurate health information and LGBTQ+ members don’t feel safe sharing personal health information.
The best way for health systems to improve healthcare delivery for the LGBTQ+ community is to rework the way they collect sexual orientation/gender identity data and educate clinicians about the health disparities LGBTQ+ members face.
Using Data to Ensure a Safe Return to School During COVID-19Health Catalyst
With limited information about the novel coronavirus, industries are scrambling to create an effective response to more quickly and safely return to life before the pandemic. Data has proven to be the best way to capture information about the developing virus. With access to the latest, comprehensive COVID-19 data, decision makers in any industry—from education to healthcare—can develop a sustainable, viable approach to pandemic-era operations.
In the education sector, leaders can use accurate, up-to-date COVID-19 data to make decisions about implementing in-person or virtual learning. When states across the country instituted virtual learning as a stopgap until it was safe to resume in-person education, the most vulnerable students experienced the greatest disadvantages. As these disparities grow with continued virtual learning, it is an imperative that leaders have access to the latest coronavirus data to rapidly return to face-to-face learning.
Customer Journey Analytics: Cracking the Patient Engagement Challenge for PayersHealth Catalyst
Customer journey analytics uses machine learning and big data to track and analyze when and through what channels customers interact with an organization, with an aim to influence behavior (e.g., buying behaviors among retail customers). Similarly, healthcare organizations want to influence health-related behaviors, such a taking medication as prescribed and not smoking, to improve outcomes and lower the cost of care. In a partnership with an analytics services provider, a payer organization is leveraging customer journey analytics among healthcare consumers to identify the best opportunities and channels for patient outreach. With this analytics-driven engagement strategy, the payer has found an opportunity to significantly improve patient engagement—a predicted overall increase from 18 percent to 31 percent.
The Digitization of Healthcare: Why the Right Approach Matters and Five Steps...Health Catalyst
While many industries are leveraging digital transformation to accelerate their productivity and quality, healthcare ranks among the least digitized sectors. Healthcare data is largely incomplete when it comes to fully representing a patient’s health and doesn’t adequately support diagnoses and treatment, risk prediction, and long-term health care plans. But even with the obvious urgency for increased healthcare digitization, the industry must raise this trajectory with sensitivity to the impacts on clinicians and patients. The right digital strategy will not only aim for more comprehensive information on patient health, but also leverage data to empower and engage the people involved.
Health systems can follow five guidelines to digitize in a sustainable, impactful way:
Achieve and maintain clinician and patient engagement.
Adopt a modern commercial digital platform.
Digitize the assets (the patients) and the processes.
Understand the importance of data to drive AI insights.
Prioritize data volume.
Held each year in Boston, Medical Informatics World connects more than 400 healthcare, biomedical science, health informatics, and IT leaders to navigate emerging trends and opportunities in the evolving industry. The event responds to the challenges in collaborating and maximizing the benefit of enabling technologies with inspiring plenary keynotes combined with focused expert-led presentations and discussions. Coverage includes population health management, predictive analytics, payer-provider-pharma data collaborations, patient care and engagement, mobile and wearable technologies, care delivery models, enterprise hospital information systems, clinical decision support, error and readmission reduction, and healthcare data security. The 2015 program features six conference tracks, two interactive dinner workshops and six plenary keynote presentations, providing attendees with the connections, tools and strategies for taking their research and care delivery to the next level. Learn more at http://www.medicalinformaticsworld.com
Survey Points to Major Burnout Concerns Among CliniciansHealth Catalyst
According to a November 2019 survey, 62 percent of clinicians and other healthcare professionals view burnout as a major problem industrywide. When asked for the best way to address clinician burnout problems, the most popular solution was less-complex workflows, which is the aim of emerging point-of-care analytics solutions.
Responses to additional questions reveal more about clinician burnout experience and views on the technology designed to help:
At your organization, how big of a problem is clinician burnout?
What is the best way to solve clinician burnout problems?
What are the biggest barriers to adopting closed-loop, point-of-care analytics capabilities at your organization
What are the biggest problems arising from a lack of adopting closed-loop, point-of-care analytics capabilities?
Why a Website? Why not Camel? I would Walk a Mile for Camel.Tom Barrett
Confused? Frustrated?! Baffled?!! What is all the mystery about creating a website.
Websites have changed a lot over the last five years. You know you need a website, but do you know why? If you have not updated your site in five years, you need to.
The purpose of a website is much different than it was five years ago. And with the meteoric rise of social media, your website will become more important than ever before.
Learn how the basics of website behavior have changed. Learn how to select a competent website developer, because it’s not about pretty pictures anymore. Learn how much you should pay or, even better, how much you should not pay for an effective website.
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Overview of Health Informatics: survey of fundamentals of health information technology, Identify the forces behind health informatics, educational and career opportunities in health informatics.
Six Proven Methods to Combat COVID-19 with Real-World AnalyticsHealth Catalyst
As data in healthcare becomes more available than ever before, so does the need to apply that data to the unique challenges facing health systems, especially in a pandemic. Even with massive amounts of data, health systems still struggle to move data from spreadsheets to drive change in a clinical setting.
These six methods allow health systems to transform data into real-world analytics, going beyond basic data usage and maximizing actionable insight:
1. Create effective information displays.
2. Add context to data.
3. Ensure data processes are sustainable.
4. Certify data quality.
5. Provide systemwide access to data.
6. Refine the approach to knowledge management.
Advancing data use in healthcare with real-world analytics arms health systems with effective tools to combat COVID-19 and continue delivering quality care driven by comprehensive, actionable insight.
2016 16th population health colloquium: summary of proceedings Innovations2Solutions
This paper will discuss the four key ideas discussed at the Colloquium that will have important ramifications as healthcare organizations seek to implement population health strategies:
1. understanding and alleviating Patient fear is Key to Patient experience
2. the Case for a new Population Health Protection agenda as a means to drive down Healthcare Costs
3. using data and technology to improve Healthcare for older adults
4. engage Consumers in Wellness-based Population Health and thrive financially
This white paper offers a detailed perspective on how big data is impacting the healthcare industry and its underlying implication on the industry as a whole. It outlines the role of big data in healthcare, its benefits, core components and challenges faced by the healthcare sector towards full-fledged adoption & implementation.
The Digital Medicine Crystal Ball: Unlocking the Future of Real-Time, Precise...Cris De Luca
The last five years have seen an unprecedented eruption in technological and health advances.
These new technologies and products—many undergoing rigorous clinical validation—will have significant direct impacts on diagnosing, preventing, monitoring or treating a disease, condition or syndrome, which in turn will transform disease management and alter business models across industries.
This whitepaper describes the current and future influence of digital medicine on the health ecosystem and highlights how various stakeholders are working to deliver clinically impactful and economically viable solutions in a saturated yet still-emerging business environment.
Topics addressed in the whitepaper include:
How various stakeholders are working to deliver clinically impactful and economically viable solutions in a saturated yet still-emerging business environment
The new roles of traditional healthcare players
How the entrance of new technologies will affect partnership models and business strategies
The future of digital medicine’s regulatory environment
Author: Nicole Fisher
The report, produced by EBD Group in collaboration with Hogan Lovells, and authored by Forbes contributor, Nicole Fisher, features insights from Christine Lemke, Evidation Health, Hogan Lovells, Cris De Luca, J&J Innovation, NIH/PMI, Rachel Sha, Sanofi, StartUp Health, and key opinion leaders such as John Nosta and Unity Stoakes.
I was asked by the US Commerce department to attend and present at a roundtable that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 27th. This roundtable included people from president's office, National Healthcare Fund, Patient Groups and key vendors. Bulgaria had many efforts to kickstart eHealth. This was an overview of US legislation and lessons learned as well as a look forward into healthcare innovation trendds
Health Data Innovation (Wolfram Data Summit)Peter Speyer
Brief overview of the work of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), and innovation happening in the health data space, ranging from Health Data Initiative to health apps, patient engagement, new tools and real-time data collection
Por norma legal las Entidades públicas deben incorporar en sus prácticas modelos de planeación y control de la gestión como GP1000 y MECI. Por su parte las empresas privadas lo hacen como requisito del mercado para garantizar la satisfacción del cliente y mejorar continuamente sus procesos organizacionales y controlar los diferentes procesos a través de normas como ISO 9001, 14001, 18000, 27000 entre otras.
Todos los Sistemas de Gestión involucran la producción de enormes cantidades de documentos, formatos y registros que deben ser controlados dado que se emplean para describir y caracterizar los procesos; para indicar la forma estandarizada de realizar las diferentes actividades de la organización y para dejar evidencia o soporte de la realización de las mismas.
La gestión documental son todas las actividades técnicas y prácticas empleadas para producir, organizar, clasificar y preservar los documentos garantizando el acceso oportuno y controlado a la información.
El escenario actual plantea que la gestión documental y los sistemas de gestión empresariales no están articulados y no se puede garantizar la adecuada gestión de los documentos y registros y especialmente su preservación.
Por todo lo anterior formulamos el contenido de este importante Seminario para que líderes de Calidad y líderes de gestión documental armonicen y articulen su trabajo y contribuyan a la mejora continua de sus lugares de trabajo.
El objetivo de utilizar Business Process Management es op mizar la eficiencia y mejorar la rentabilidad. La implementación de una solución de Business Process Management ofrece beneficios inmediatos y a largo plazo, y un buen comienzo ayudará a asegurar su obtención.
Esta guía de Mejores Prácticas BPM le ayudará a preparar su organización y la implementación de BPM hacia el éxito.
Gestión de Comunicaciones oficiales - correspondencia
La gestión de la información y documentación es una ventaja competitiva y duradera para las organizaciones dados los ahorros de recursos y tiempos que genera la adecuada gestión de la información y documentación de manera electrónica y centralizada.
La gestión de comunicaciones oficiales y correspondencia es una de las principales dificultades de la gestión de documentos en las organizaciones, la centralización del proceso de radicación de correspondencia, el registro de las comunicaciones de entrada, salida e interna y la posibilidad de diferenciar los descriptores (metadatos) para el registro de los diferentes tipos de documentos (facturas, comunicaciones oficiales, derechos de petición, flujos de trabajo, etc.
Radar ha desarrollado un módulo de gestión de correspondencia integrado al Sistema de Gestión de Contenidos Alfresco
Manual de acceso a la información pública recopila los derechos y deberes de los ciudadanos asociados al acceso a la información pública, la información del estado no necesariamente es pública
Basavarajeeyam is a Sreshta Sangraha grantha (Compiled book ), written by Neelkanta kotturu Basavaraja Virachita. It contains 25 Prakaranas, First 24 Chapters related to Rogas& 25th to Rasadravyas.
NVBDCP.pptx Nation vector borne disease control programSapna Thakur
NVBDCP was launched in 2003-2004 . Vector-Borne Disease: Disease that results from an infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Examples of vector-borne diseases include Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria.
These simplified slides by Dr. Sidra Arshad present an overview of the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract.
Learning objectives:
1. Enlist the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract
2. Briefly explain how these functions are carried out
3. Discuss the significance of dead space
4. Differentiate between minute ventilation and alveolar ventilation
5. Describe the cough and sneeze reflexes
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 39, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 34, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
3. Chapter 17, Human Physiology by Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
4. Non-respiratory functions of the lungs https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/13/3/98/278874
Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
- Video recording of this lecture in English language: https://youtu.be/lK81BzxMqdo
- Video recording of this lecture in Arabic language: https://youtu.be/Ve4P0COk9OI
- Link to download the book free: https://nephrotube.blogspot.com/p/nephrotube-nephrology-books.html
- Link to NephroTube website: www.NephroTube.com
- Link to NephroTube social media accounts: https://nephrotube.blogspot.com/p/join-nephrotube-on-social-media.html
2. Open Health Data: About the report
This qualitative overview of the Open Health Data initiatives is meant to showcase
the importance of open health data, social as well as economic impacts across US,
UK and a select set of Western European countries. This overview is not meant to
be a comprehensive report on all the global initiatives, funding models and tracking
of open health data. There are tremendous efforts across the globe to change our
global healthcare system and we believe that open health data is one of the keys to
bridge the gap between digital citizens & governments. Also, please note that if your
country, initiative or product was not mentioned, it is in no way meant to diminish the
impact of the efforts. Please feel free to share, discuss and contribute to the list of
ongoing efforts and initiatives on one of our global communities or on
openhealthdata.org.
“Open health data encourages innovation &
entrepreneurship, improves transparency in our
healthcare system and most importantly can turn
healthcare into health for our digital citizens”
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Open Health Data: Select Quotes
“Open health data will unleash the power of people and
save the NHS from a crisis” - Tim Kelsey, Patients &
Information Director of NHS
“Educating them [entrepreneurs] about the data ... And
having them take the data and fusing it to their service
and platform, that's been very high-return for us” - Todd
Park
“Imagine we had a resource available that could stimulate
new innovations, a market worth tens of billions of euros,
and increase the transparency and governance of public
life” - Neelie Kroes
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4. Why Open Health Data?
Bridging the gap between governments & citizens
Improved transparency and accountability
Increased participation by digital health citizens
Informed decision making by empowered health consumers
Speed-up Scientific Research
Inspire mashups for social innovation
Generate economic activity surrounding new healthcare innovation
And most importantly.. enhance patient care
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5. Open Health Data: Challenges
Institutional Resistance to publish the data
Defending the data
Turning data against politicians?
Incomprehensible for laymen??
Lack of access to data
Government Agencies may have no data
Data locked in private institutions
Tracking results, impacts & longevity
Open data means unrestricted access
Tracking ecosystem output, consumption, social & economic data is hard
Idea: HealthCrunch.World API ?
Data
Focus on the local market
Drug Index, diagnoses, treatment codes differ across markets
Privacy and Security
Regulatory pressures, unclear De-identification regulations & routines
Empowering the empowered or available for everyone?
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6. Open Health Data: United States
Health Data Initiative (HDI)
Launched in 2010 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS)
HDI is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators and entrepreneurs to utilize
HHS data to help improve health and health care
A growing inventory of public health data resources easily available and accessible at a
central location: HealthData.gov
Includes clinical care provider quality information, nationwide health service provider
directories, databases of the latest medical and scientific knowledge, consumer product
data, community health performance information, government spending data and much
more
In addition to publishing and promoting the availability of health data, HDI is preparing the
data for use by developers while protecting privacy and confidentiality
HDI is seeking to identify, encourage and accelerate the meaningful uses of the published
data by organizing forums, public competitions or hackathons
Policy Developments Support Openness
The Affordable Care Act, signed by President Obama in 2010, authorized HHS to release
new data sources
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7. Open Health Data: United States
HDI: Economic & Societal Impacts
More HHS health data and more usable formats
New innovative applications, products and services with use of health data
With improved data and innovative, new collaborative initiatives in disease prevention,
health promotion and measurement of health care quality and performance
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8. Open Health Data: United States
Health Systems Measurement Project (HSMP)
Web-based tool launched in 2012 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS)
Tracks government data on critical U.S. health system indicators
10 dimensions: access to care, cost and affordability, coverage, health information
technology, innovation, population health, prevention, quality, vulnerable population &
health care workforce
Combines data from multiple sources
Allows to compare trends across measures and levels
Economic & Societal Impacts
“Ensuring all Americans have access to these data is an important way to make our health
care system more open and transparent.” Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services
Secretary
Open Data Sources
Data provided by the following agencies:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA)
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9. Open Health Data: United States
BlueButton Initiative
Effort to accelerate patient access to their health records
Initiated in August 2010 by the U.S.Department of Veterans Affairs
Idea expanded to public and private sector
UnitedHealthcare adopted support in Sept, 2011 and 500K patients use it
Aetna went live in Sept, 2011 and available to 36.5M people
IBlueButton app was created by Hummetrix to enable mobile HIE solution
BlueButton Record Download is now available on MyMedicare.gov
Economic & Social Impacts
According to iBlueButton Sources, over 150M users in June, 2012
Open Data Sources
v29 ICD-9-CM code (15K diagnoses codes; 3900 procedure codes)
FDA National Drug Code Directory (55,000 NDC codes)
CMS NPI registry (3.7M NPI codes)
National Library of Medicine RxNorm
NIH Medline Plus Connect (1200 Drug Information Records)
Department of Veteran Affairs Drug File-Reference (46,000 NUI concepts)
CMS UB04
HCPCCS codes (10,000 codes)
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10. Open Health Data: United States
Archimeds IndiGO
IndiGO calculates and displays the patient risk of adverse events
Physician & Patient decision support tool
Patient powerful motivator tool
IndiGO combines a patient’s health information with a robust set of publicly available data,
such as national datasets, clinical trails (e.g. NIH diabetes trials) or epidemiological studies
(e.g. ARIC)
Economic & Social Impacts
IndiGO generates personalize preventative care for each patient
12,500 patients at Kaiser Permanente with 13% reduction in 5 year cardio risk, compared to
EHR and panel support tool alone
For every 1 million users, 1400 heart attacks and strokes averted annually
Open Data Sources
ex. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data such as National Health And
Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
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11. Open Health Data: United States
iTriage
Founded in 2008 by 2 emergency medicine physicians
Combines open health data with large database of symptoms
Includes directory of healthcare service providers
Helps healthcare consumers answer “What could be wrong?”
Helps healthcare consumers answer “Where should I go for treatment?”
Economic & Social Impacts
Over 7M consumers have downloaded iTriage as of September, 2012
Used about 3 million times each month
125K people have found Federally Qualified Health Centers
25K people have located mental health and substance abuse centers
iTriage has created ~90+ jobs
600+ hospital partners & practitioners providing better care to consumers
Open Data Sources
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - Federally Qualified Health Centers
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)- Mental Health
Treatment & Substance Abuse Facilities Locator
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12. Open Health Data: United States
Vitals
Founded in 2008, Vitals helps patients make the right healthcare choices
Key features: search for a doctor, book an appointment and prepare for the visit
Contains1.4 billion data points from 17,000 data sources, 14 million doctor affiliations, 2.4
million medical publications, 1 million patient ratings, 830,000 active, licensed doctor profiles,
and 400,000 medical expertise categories
Supported by a mobile app
Economic & Social Impacts
As of 2011,100 M patients accessed the Vitals information set to make informed choices
As data has gotten richer, its use by patients has grown.
Currently, over ~10 million visitors per month
Inc 500, #47 Fastest Growing Company, 2012
Kiplinger, Best of Everything, 2011
Open Data Sources
A wide range of data sets both public and private
Ex. Data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
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13. Open Health Data: United States
100Plus
Mobile app that assesses behavior and spur healthier living habits
To motivate people to take small healthy steps to change daily habits and improve their
health
Gamification for health
“Because health doesn't have to be hard.”
Economic & Social Impacts
•100Proof Experiment app was developed in early 2012
•Track drinking and partying ways
•About 7,000 users through the app in just over 2 days
•100Plus beta app launched
•Open Data Sources
Combination of public (CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National
Health & Nutrition Examination Survey) and private data (Practice Fusion EMR)
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14. Open Health Data: United Kingdom
•Health & Social Care Act 2012
•Included provisions for new approach of transparency, growth & open data
•UK is expected to undergo a “data revolution” from April 2013
•Safeguarding the future of NHS
•Routine flows of data from primary care and secondary care
•Empowering patients with information
•Encouraging patient feedback
“Nobody has created a knowledge-based health system anywhere in the world. But in some respects
the UK is in a global leadership position, we’ve published more data than anywhere else,” Tim Kisley
(National Director for Patients and Information in the National Health Service) about Open Health
Data in UK (May, 2012)
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15. Open Health Data: United Kingdom
•NHS Drug Spend Analysis
•Partnership between Mastodon C, Open Healthcare UK, Ben Goldacre
•Mastodon C housed at Open Data Institute (opened it’s doors week of Dec 8th)
•Data analysis of UK prescription data
•Patterns of expensive statin prescriptions
•Economic & Social Impacts
•2011-2012 NHS spent ~£400M
•Potential NHS bill reduction of over ~£200M
•Open Data Sources
•NHS Public Prescription data
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16. Open Health Data: United Kingdom
•Pocket Health
•App developed in public/private partnership NHS/CSC
•Finding NHS Services & improving decision making
•Offers number of features including ICE (in case of emergency)
•Economic & Social Impacts
•February 2012, app reached #2 spot on UK iTunes store
•Open Data Sources
•NHSChoices datasets on data.gov.uk
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17. Open Health Data: United Kingdom
•Get the Right Treatment
•Launched in 2010 by NHS Coventry
•Support for Get The Right Treatment campaign
•Location based GP, pharmacy & walk-in centers
•Economic & Social Impacts
•As of June 2011, the app was downloaded more then 1,000 times
•Open Data Sources
•NHS Choices datasets on data.gov.uk
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18. Open Health Data: Austria
•Data.wien.gv.at
• The first Open Government Data portal of a public administration in Austria
• Launched in May, 2011
•Data.gv.at
• National OGD portal launched in April, 2012
• Aims to create data awareness and increase data literacy
• Aggregates all the local and regional datasets in Austria, such as portals of the city of
Vienna, Linz, Graz or the state Tirol.
• Currently, 23 health datasets such as lists of ambulances or hospitals
•Cooperation OGD Austria
• Launched in July, 2011
• Brings together federal state, provinces, cities and municipalities to set common standards
for OGD in Austria and develop conditions to the benefit of all
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19. Open Health Data: Austria
•Hospitals Vienna (Spitäler Wien)
•Mobile app that allows to search for hospitals in Vienna
•Economic & Social Impacts
•No information found
•Open Data Sources
• Hospital Locations (Krankenhäuser – Standorte)ondata.wien.gv.at
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20. Open Health Data: Belgium
•Data.gov.be
•National Flemish Open Government Data portal
• Launched in 2011
•Currently, 7 health datasets such as Flemish healthcare institutions or retirement and nursing
homes
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21. Open Health Data: Belgium
•Kadee
•Prototype developed by BitsofLove during Apps for Ghent competition in 2011
•Aimed at parents walking with their children
•Kadee provides online information about events and places for kids
•It also provides information about the nearest doctors or pharmacists
•Economic & Social Impacts
•Prototype developed in 2011. No further information found
•Open Data Sources
• Ghent Data (public toilets, playgrounds, Doctor & Pharmacy of guard) on data.gent.be
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22. Open Health Data: Belgium
•Dokter in Gent
•Developed by Cocoaheads community during the Apps for Ghent 2011,
•App that allows to find the nearest doctor in Ghent
•Economic & Social Impacts
•No information found on app availability nor usage
•Open Data Sources
• Ghent Data on data.gent.be
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23. Open Health Data: France
•Etalab
•French government Open Data initiative
•Launched in July, 2011
•Committed to ensure continuity and quality of the Open Data movement in France
•Data.gouv.fr: national Open Government Data portal launched by Etalab in December,
2011
•DataConnexions: community aimed at encouraging innovation based on Open Data and
public sector information reuse; launched by Etalab in February, 2012
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24. Open Health Data: France
•Forumi Sante
•Portal publishing information about health care products and services
• Stimulates informed decision making
•Since May 2012, Forumi Sante made possible to compare between medical service
providers and regions, including medical rates linked to the Database of the French National
Health Insurance Agency (Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés –
CNAMTS)
•Economic & Social Impacts
•Winner of the first Dataconnexions Open Data contest in May, 2012
•Open Data Sources
•French National Health Insurance Agency (CNAMTS) on Ameli.fr
•In July 2012, Forumi Sante received a notice from CNAMTS to cease publishing its medical
fee comparison data and linking to any data on Ameli.fr
•As an explanation, CNAMTS argued that some data was represented in an unauthorized
way and that re-use of medical fee data can only be allowed with permission of the listed
medical professionals
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25. Open Health Data: France
•HandiCarto LR
•Developed by La Ville de la Rochelle in May, 2012
•App for people with reduced mobility
•Offers two features: "My public space" with privileged paths (depending on the type of
disability) & citizen guide; and "Sharing information" used to report the available services in the
area
•Economic & Social Impacts
•In July 2012, HandiCaro LR won the Trophées APAJH 2012 award in the category of la Ville
citoyenne (~citizen-friendly city)
•Open Data Sources
•The first mobile app reusing data released on opendata.larochelle.fr
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26. Open Health Data: France
•D-Datasanté
•Platform-guide that aggregates and geo-locates all French public health services to help
people make better health care decisions
•Includes a GPS feature, customizable “health quality” dashboard and a contextualized
comparison of available services
•Economic & Social Impacts
•Project in development
•Finalist of the first Dataconnexions Open Data contest in May, 2012
•Open Data Sources
•Planning to use health data set from data.gouv.fr
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27. Open Health Data: France
•Perceived difficulties in accessing and publishing data in the field of health
• “In France, we do not like the transparency of health information. (..) Very little has been
done to encourage cost comparison of citizen services”. Barbara N'Gouyombo, CEO Fourmi
Santé, October 24th, 2012
• "Effective access to health care also requires greater transparency in the supply of health.
Our role is to enable French public to access a clear and readable information on our health
care system. (…) Today, transparency is ensured primarily by private actors. I believe it is up to
governments to collect information on hospitals to make them more accessible and
transparent. “ Marisol Touraine, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, October 18th, 2012
•No open health data and government “intervention for transparency”
instead?
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28. Open Health Data: Germany
•Daten.berlin.de
•Open Data portal of the city of Berlin
•Launched in September, 2011
•Realized by Berlin Online and FOKUS
•Currently, 1 health data set: swimming places (water quality) in Berlin
•National Open Data portal
•As of 2013, Germany is launching a pilot for national Open Government Data portal
•Test version initially will offer environmental, geographical and statistic data
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29. Open Health Data: Germany
•Swimming Places in Berlin
•Platform displaying quality of swimming places in Berlin
•Developed in July, 2012
•Economic & Social Impacts
•No information found
•Open Data Sources
• Swimming places - water quality (Liste der Badestellen - Badegewässerqualität) on
daten.berlin.de
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30. Open Health Data: Germany
•Ozon Berlin
•Platform that displays the current level of ozone in Berlin
•Developed in September, 2011
•Graphically refined scale is used to warn of an excessively high ozone exposure
•Economic & Social Impacts
•Recommend for use of people with respiratory illnesses and children with bronchial spasm
•Open Data Sources
•Environment data: Air quality (Luftgüte tagesaktuell) on daten.berlin.de
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31. Open Health Data: Italy
•Dati.salute.gov
•National Italian Open Health Data portal
•Launched in May, 2012 by Italian Ministry of Health
•Dedicated to the development, promotion and dissemination of data in the health sector
•Currently, 14 datasets including Medical Devices, Drugs, Pharmacies and Parapharmacies
•Supported by a Cloud-based infrastructure
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32. Open Health Data: Italy
•OD Parafarmacies
•Mobile app containing the full list of Parapharmacies
•Economic & Social Impacts
•As of September 2012 ,~100-500 downloads
•Open Data Sources
•Parafarmacie on dati.salute.gov.it
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33. Open Health Data: the Netherlands
•Data.overheid.nl
•National Open Government Data portal
•Lunched in September, 2011
•Hack de Overheid (Hack the government)
•Open Government Data initiative within the Open State Foundation
•To foster transparency of the Dutch government
•To encourage open data creation and usage to develop new innovative applications for
digital citizens
•Hack de Overheid organizes range of activities such as open data workshops, mashups or
hackathons (Apps for Amsterdam, Apps for North-Holland and Apps for the Netherlands).
•Open Zorg Data (openzorgdata.nl)
•Open Health Data community of the Open State Foundation
•Launched in ~November, 2011
•To encourage health care innovation and entrepreneurship
•To improve transparency, performance and affordability of the Dutch healthcare system
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34. Open Health Data: the Netherlands
•Open Data Initiatives supported by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare &
Sport
•BIG-register
•Provides information on over 400,000 registered caregivers
•KiesBeter (Choose Better)
•Wide range of information on health and health care to help make better choices
•Includes comparison of health care costs and rankings of health care providers and health
insurers
•Kosten van Ziekten (Cost of Illnesses)
•“To determine the demands on health care resources caused by disease, age and
gender”
•“To demonstrate the importance of the perspective on health expenditure (national
versus international)“
•Regelhulp
•Offers personalized information on specific government aid programs
•According to Be Informed report (2012), ~70,000 consultations/month
•Jaarverslagenzorg
• Performance of Youth & Pedagogic assistance Institutions
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35. Open Health Data: Spain
•Datos.gob.es
•National Spanish Open Government Data portal
•Launched in October, 2011
•Includes general datasets of Spanish Ministry of Health, such as list of healthcare centers or
hospitals
•Dadesobertes.gencat.cat
•Catalonia’s Open Government Data portal
•Launched in November, 2010
•Aggregates data from all the public data initiatives in Catalonia
•Currently, 24 health datasets, such as diagnostics of the 9 most infectious diseases in the
region
•Opendata.euskadi.net
•Basque Country’s (‘Euskadi’) Open Government Data portal
•Launched in 2010
•Broad range of health datasets, such as Hospital statistics (resources, indicators, assistance
& economic activity) or Hospital discharges
•“In the Basque Country that I want, the citizen is an adult who is able to think, decide and take responsibility
by participating in the joint construction of the country. And I want to stress this: the times when citizens were
treated like children who are led by the hand, who are told what to do are over. The days when people look
to the politic parties or public institutions to know where to walk have come to an end.” President of the
Basque Country, Patxi Lopez, January 14th, 2010
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36. Open Health Data: Spain
•Open Data efforts in Spain
•The Freedom of Information Act mandating government transparency and the right of
citizens to access information has not been released yet
•According to Access Info Europe and Fundación Ciudadana Civio, 47 % of the requests for
information from the public currently go unanswered in Spain; and only 14 % receive a
satisfactory answer
•Civio: a Spanish Foundation dedicated to promote citizen engagementand government
transparency by advocating data openness and developing innovative applications that
enable easy access to public information; founded in December, 2011
•Access Info Europe: a Spain-based NGO, since 2006 dedicated to advancing and
defending the right to information as well as creating and promoting Open Government
Standards
•According to OKFN, regional governments, particularly Basque Country and Catalonia,
have been more reluctant to publish data than national government in Spain (blog.okfn.org
on July 4th, 2012
•Apparent lack of transparency in health sector
•No health aggregated data as each region (there are 17 in Spain) controls its health system
•According to the President of the Spanish Association of Health Economics, Juan Oliva, the
Spanish regional authorities don't publish hospital performance data due to political reasons
(El Mundo, November 21st, 2012)
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37. Open Health Data: Spain
•Diagnosticat
•Online platform developed by the Catalan Institute of Health (Institut Català de la Salut) in
2011
•Weekly reporting of the EHR cases (80% of primary care doctor use EHR in Catalonia)
•Diagnosticat includes epidemiology diagnostics of the 9 most infectious diseases and
primary care physician visits rates in Catalonia
•Rapid and valid method to determine the trend of certain diseases
•Helps surveillance of some health conditions
•Economic & Social Impacts
•No information found
•Open Data Sources
•Catalan Institute of Health datasets on dadesobertes.gencat.cat
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38. Open Health Data: Spain
•Basque Government Budget
•Platform launched in October, 2012
•Summarizes and publishes last 10 years of public budget evolution (including health care
part) of Basque Country
•Economic & Social Impacts
•No information found
•Open Data Sources
•Datasets on opendata.euskadi.net
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39. Open Health Data: Sweden
•Opengov.se
• Launched in 2009, private initiative of Swedish open government data
• To bring together all the available public datasets in Sweden
•Vinnova
• Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation
• Since 2012, developing a new open data initiative and national portal öppnadata.se
• To encourage new innovations by making data openly available and easily accessible
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40. Open Health Data: Sweden
•Medicinera.se
•Developed by Scandinavian Outcomes AB, Medicinera.se offers immediate advice for a
given health concern
•Artificial intelligence for self-diagnosis and self-care
•In addition, Medicinera.se provides references to appropriate medications and looks for the
nearest pharmacy that can provide the indicated medication
•Economic & Social Impacts
•Nominated for the 2012 European SME eHealth Competition honoring the best eHealth
innovations in Europe
• Nominated to the 2011 Sweden's Golden Mobile award for the promotion of good and safe
use of medicines
•Open Data Sources
•Swedish medicine register and licensed pharmacists list from the Medical Products Agency
(Läkemedelsverket)
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41. Open Health Data: Sweden
•OmVard
•Online platform developed by Sanocore AB in 2009
•To bring transparency in the health care system and empower informed health care
decisions
•Includes information on approximately 16 000 care providers (as of January, 2011)
•Gives users possibility of comparing different providers
•Economic & Social Impacts
•~50 000 visitors/month (January, 2011)
•2nd place in the category of Swedish Public Sector sites in 2010
•Best Swedish site of 2009
•Health care IT-award Digital Patient service 2009
•Open Data Sources
•OmVard brings together data on health centers, elder and home care providers and
nursing homes.
•Currently, 15 datasets including medical outcome results, compliance to national guidelines
for best-practice-care, patient reported outcome measures and waiting time to consultant
visits & medical procedures.
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42. Open Health Data: Sweden
•Druggle
•Search engine specialized for pharmacology and medical drug information
•Collaboration of Karolinska Institutet, Seibo Software Studios & Swedish Institute for Drug
Informatics (SIDI)
•Intended to function both as a general point of reference as well as a decision support
system
•Economic & Social Impacts
•No information found
•Open Data Sources
Summary of Product Characteristics from
•European Medicines Agency (EMEA), EU
•Läkemedelsverket, Sweden.
•National Health Service (MHRA), UK.
•Asociación Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios (AEMPS), Spain.
•List of recommended drugs from the Department of Drug Management and Informatics
(LMC) in the Stockholm County Council (SLL), Sweden
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43. Open Health Data: Switzerland
•Opendata.ch
•Association stimulating the Open Government Data movement in Switzerland formally
founded in January, 2012
•Born from the Swiss open data community growing since 2010
•From 2011, in addition to raising awareness and building partnerships, opendata.ch
organized conferences and coding events (make.opendata.ch) to encourage open data
initiatives in Switzerland
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44. Open Health Data: Switzerland
•Open Health Hack Days 2012
•Swiss Open Data Camp for a more transparent and more innovative healthcare
• "A third of the cost of health care consequences of missing data and poor
communication!“ Martin Den, President of the Swiss Association for Telemedicine and eHealth
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45. Open Health Data Recommendation
•Advance with efforts to engage with digital citizens
•Foster and support a community of evangelists
•Make data easy to access, understand and act on
• Publish fast, publish often
• Encourage and facilitate re-use
•More than just publishing data sets
•Create awareness and stimulate community initiatives
• Facilitate collaboration
• Form partnerships with existing public and private open data initiatives
•Adequate Policy & Regulatory framework
• Support data openness, reuse and R&D
• Stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation
• Develop standards for information & data literacy
•From data to information, knowledge and advancement of the society,
politics and economy
Government Entities
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46. Open Health Data Recommendation
•Data creates value when it is published and exploited
•Move to and unleash the opportunities that Open Data presents
• Social Analytics
• Performance Improvements
• New Products and Services
• Data-driven Innovation
•Support the government’s efforts of publishing data
• Search for public-private partnerships and collaboration
• Release own datasets to drive innovation
•Encourage and support open data conferences, hackathons or mashups
•Support and foster cross-sector and cross-border initiatives
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47. Open Health Data Recommendation
•Get involved - it is your body and your health
•Join local chapters or grassroot organizations
•You don’t have to be a geek to do this, all disciplines are welcome:
• Technology
• Pharmacists
• Nurses
• Doctors
• Marketing
• UX/UI
• List goes on!
•Start a startup using local open data – why not?
Citizens
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48. Sources: United States
United States
http://www.hhs.gov/open/initiatives/hdi/about.html
https://healthmeasures.aspe.hhs.gov/
http://www.socrata.com/customer-spotlight/health-system-measurement-project/
http://www.healthit.gov/patients-families/blue-button/about-blue-button#footnote-1
http://humetrix.com/pr_hdiforum_2012.html
http://cts.businesswire.com
http://www.vitals.com/
http://mobihealthnews.com/
http://www.healthdata.gov/blog/archimedes-indigo-helps-patients-make-data-driven-health-decisions#Bep6hzh4iz8Jy
http://www.mhimss.org/news/archimedes-prepares-put-indigo-patients-hands
http://eon.businesswire.com/http://www.healthdata.gov/blog/100plus-%E2%80%93-app-making-health-care-easier
www.100plus.com
49. Sources: United Kingdom
United Kingdom
http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21567980-how-scrutiny-freely-available-data-might-save-nhs-money-beggar-th
http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/06/act-explained/
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240149724/UK-is-global-leader-in-open-healthcare-data-says-Tim-Kelsey
http://www.governmentcomputing.com/news/tim-kelsey-heralds-nhs-data-revolution
http://hack4health.co.uk/data/
http://www.nhs.uk/aboutNHSChoices/Pages/NHSChoicesintroduction.aspx
http://www.ehealthnews.eu/csc/2960-csc-announces-pocket-health-iphone-app
http://mapsandapps.dh.gov.uk/2011/09/18/guest-post-we-need-an-app-reflections-from-the-nhs/
http://www.coventrypct.nhs.uk/
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50. Sources: Austria & Belgium
Austria
http://www.data.gv.at/anwendungen/fahrschulen-wien/
http://epsiplatform.eu/content/austria-launches-national-data-portal
Belgium
http://www.lapsi-project.eu/openbelgium
http://www.bestuurszaken.be/vlaamse-overheid-kiest-voor-open-data
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=BLDDI_20110612_004
http://appsforghent.be/
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Spot inequalities in provision and to advocate for change
Intelectual Property - who owns the data?
In addition to CMS, previously found info on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) but cant find the source.
Additional information Data.gouv.fr - During the first year of existence, 750.000 visitors have downloaded data 394.000 times Etalab is coordinating the French adminsitratos to enhable free and easy reuse of publis service information. Committed to further open data in France: Intensifying the opening of public data because of the innovation, social and economic potential, and encouraging the free re-use of this data. Creating synergy with interministerial directorate for information systems and communication (DSI) to improve the quality and usability of public data Contribute to the development of tranparancy and open government in the context of the modernisations of public administration, for example by allowing people to contribute to policy evaluations through the usage and analysis of open data
See Links on “ In July 2012, Forumi Sante received a notice from CNAMTS to cease publishing its medical fee comparison data and linking to data on Ameli.fr ” http://epsiplatform.eu/content/row-over-medical-fee-comparison-data http://www.politis.fr/Quand-Ameli-attaque-la-Fourmi,19885.html http://www.journaldunet.com/web-tech/start-up/fourmi-sante-honoraires-0912.shtml Forumi Sante reaction : http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/barbara-ngouyombo/open-data-tarifs-sante-assurance-maladie_b_2004495.html Explanation CNAMTS : http://www.slate.fr/lien/61395/securite-sociale-fourmi-sante-tarifs
I dont think its not the health data here (but its a health-related app)..
See links: Barbara N ’Gouyombo (http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/barbara-ngouyombo/open-data-tarifs-sante-assurance-maladie_b_2004495.html) ( In addition to describing Forumi Sante case, Barbara (CEO of Forumi Sante) mentioned that ATIH ( French Technical Agency of Information on Hospitals - see http://www.atih.sante.fr ),owns a database of fees in private clinics, data from the Health Data Institute (SDI), which are only accessible to the founding members.) Marisol Touraine (http://www.mutualite.fr/L-actualite/Evenements/Congres/Discours-d-ouverture-de-Marisol-Touraine) Open Data difficulties in France (including additional examples of closing open health data initiatives : Densistedegarde.net) : http://owni.fr/2012/11/06/et-si-cetait-la-faim-de-l-open-data/
Open Data Efforts in Spain: http://www.access-info.org/en/spain-coalicion-pro-acceso/307-si-saben-pero-no-contestan- http://www.access-info.org/en/open-government-data/302-spain-is-a-world-leader-in-open-data-says-who http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/04/en-boca-cerrada-open-data-in-catalunya-today/ Jual Oliva, El Mundo: and well, he mentioned that only Catalonia published its hospital indicators but I did see some indicators in Basque Country datasets too... So didnt include that (for now) http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2012/11/20/noticias/1353437329.html “ Es difícil saber si existen demasiados hospitales, precisamente por esa falta de transparencia . Sólo una comunidad, Cataluña, hizo públicos en julio de 2012 sus datos sobre resultados de calidad por centros ; en qué hospitales los tiempos de espera son más reducidos, cuál tiene mayor tasa de cesáreas o de infecciones, menor riesgo de reingreso... Pero eso es una excepción. Todas las comunidades tienen los datos, pero si no los hacen públicos es por una cuestión política . Y conocerlos no es una cuestión baladí. Algunos países, por ejemplo, aplican unas normas muy explícitas para que un hospital deba tener un volumen mínimo de cirugías cardiacas para poder tener ese servicio, por ejemplo; es una cuestión de economía de escalas, porque los equipos que operan mucho tienen mejores resultados. ”