2. On today s call:
Adam Wong
Hemali Thakkar
George Thomas
Management and Manager, Developer Chief Architect
Program Analyst
Challenge
ONC
HealthData.gov
Health 2.0
3. Agenda for Today s Meeting
§ ONC and the Investing in Innovation (i2)
Program
§ An
Introduction to the (first two of seven)
HealthData.gov Domain and Platform Challenges
§ Q&A About the Challenges
5. i2 Goals
• Better Health, Better Care, Better Value through Quality Improvement
– Further the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services
– Highlight programs, activities, and issues of concern
• Spur Innovation and Highlight Excellence
– Motivate, inspire, and lead
• Community building – Development of ecosystem
• Stimulate private sector investment
6. What is HealthData.gov?
• HealthData.gov is a public resource designed
to bring liberated health datasets, innovation
challenges, and applications and tools to the
public to help increase public knowledge and
solve problems in health.
– Todd Park, US Federal CTO
• source
7. HealthData.gov i2 Challenges
• two types
– three domain specific
• improve the integration and liquidity of data made available
– four platform specific
• enhance the capabilities of the technology components
• 3 rounds
– sequenced to leverage dependencies
• round 1: June through October 2102
• round 2: November 2012 through May 2013
• round 3: June through December 2013
8. HealthData.gov i2 Challenges
• June 2012 through October 2012
– Metadata (domain)
• apply cross domain from voluntary consensus standards
organizations and defacto standards, design other domain
specific metadata schemata
– HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing
– Simplified Sign On (platform)
• enhance HDP infrastructure components with WebID
identity provider and relying party capabilities
– HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing
– $35K: $20K 1st, $10K 2nd, $5K 3rd place (each)
9. First Domain Challenge
• Metadata
– requests the application of existing voluntary
consensus standards for metadata common to all
open government data
– and invites new designs for health domain specific
metadata to classify datasets in our growing
catalog, creating entities, attributes and relations
– that form the foundations for better discovery,
integration and liquidity.
12. Domain Specific Examples
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
– Hospital Compare (Health Datapalooza 2011)
– see blog post and presentation
• from data.gov.uk
– environmental data ( bathing water , or beaches)
– Web 3.0 API example
13. First Platform Challenge
• WebID based SSO
– will improve community engagement
– by providing simplified sign on (SSO) for external
users interacting across multiple HDP technology
components,
– making it easier for community collaborators to
contribute,
– leveraging new approaches to decentralized
authentication.
14. About WebID
• Leverages existing Web infrastructure
– X.509 certificates and TLS
• A 'mirrored claims' approach to authentication
– externalizing LDAP, a human/app API key
• for more info, see
– http://webid.info/
• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/
• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki
• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/
Implementations
15. Where we re going with WebID
• see (platform) challenge 4
– enabling very flexible and fine-grained access
control
• leads to data centric authorization
– PCAST Health IT Report
• 'data element access service
– secure the data, not just the devices
• US Fed CIO Steven VanRoekel
16. Timeline for both Challenges
• Submission Period Ends: October 2, 2012
• Winners Notified: Early November
