The Health Data Initiative aims to unleash health data and catalyze innovation by making large amounts of health-related data from government sources openly available. This includes data on community health, healthcare providers, government spending, individual health records, medical knowledge, and consumer products. The goal is to fuel an "ecosystem of innovation" where startups and developers create new tools and services to help consumers, employers, healthcare providers, journalists, and local leaders improve health. Examples include apps and websites that help consumers manage their health, tools that help doctors deliver better care, and products that help communities analyze health trends. The HDI hopes to showcase and promote these innovations through challenges, meetups, and annual forums.

1. Unleashing the Power of Open Data and Innovation to Improve HealthTodd ParkChief Technology OfficerU.S. Department of Health and Human Services

3. Weather websites

4. Weather mobile apps

5. Weather insurance

6. And moreWeather data FUELS Made available to the public

8. Help employers promote health and wellness

9. Help care providers deliver better care

10. Help journalists shed light

11. Help local leaders make better-informed decisions

12. Support all of the above through “data intermediary” services

13. And much moreHealth-Related Data from FUELS

14. Health Data Initiative core activities: liberate data and catalyze innovation Publish brand new data for public access – while rigorously protecting privacy and confidentiality Make existing data much more accessible -- “machine-readable,” downloadable, accessible via application programming interfaces (APIs), free, much easier to find Energetically publicize our data to innovators -- who can use it as raw material to develop applications and services that help improve health and health care

16. 1,170 metrics of community health and health care performance

17. Launched 2/2011HHS Data Being Liberated “Blue Button” Medical/ Scientific Knowledge Consumer Product Information

19. Provider quality COMPARE APIs at data.medicare.gov, launched 9/2010

20. Medicare claim files for provider quality measurement, coming 1/2012HHS Data Being Liberated “Blue Button” Medical/ Scientific Knowledge Consumer Product Information

22. Allows veterans, Medicare beneficiaries, and active duty military to download their own claims or personal health information

23. Launched 10/2010

24. Learn more at bluebuttondata.orgHHS Data Being Liberated “Blue Button” Medical/ Scientific Knowledge Consumer Product Information

26. Health insurance products available in the individual and small business markets across the U.S. – made available via downloadable files 8/2011 HHS Data Being Liberated “Blue Button” Medical/ Scientific Knowledge Consumer Product Information

28. Medline Plus Connect, launched 11/2010HHS Data Being Liberated “Blue Button” Medical/ Scientific Knowledge Consumer Product Information

30. HealthData.gov, the one-stop place to get free, publicly available data from federal agencies, launched 2/2011

32. Many innovator “meetups” and conferences

34. Showcased 50 of the best innovations developed by companies that help consumers, care providers, employers, and communities improve health and health care

36. Healthline

37. Castlight

38. Patients Like Me

39. Asthmapolis

41. Essence Group/Lumeris

42. Doximity

43. Press Ganey

44. Rise Health

46. ESRI

47. Network of Care for Healthy Communities

49. Aetna Foundation challenge

50. Sanofi Aventis diabetes challenge

51. NCIIA Nursing Home of the Future “invent-a-thon”

52. University of Michigan: nation’s first consumer health informatics masters degree program

53. Startup Health: new health startup “seed accelerator/entrepreneurship academy”

55. California HealthCare Foundation

56. Consumers Union

57. ESRI

58. Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index

59. Grantmakers in Health

60. Health 2.0

61. InnoCentive

62. Institute of Medicine

63. Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

64. Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation

65. National Association of Counties

66. O’Reilly Media

67. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

69. Help employers promote health and wellness

70. Help care providers deliver better care

71. Help journalists shed light

72. Help local leaders make better-informed decisions

73. Support all of the above through “data intermediary” services

74. And much moreHealth-Related Data from FUELS