Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

2009-09-04 Thread hungerregnuh 
Sorry,

I didn't include this in my first email but it took some digging to find 
this link again.

http://www.ahd.com/

Something like the link above I think would be more useful.

On 09/04/2009 07:13 AM, Stephen Beller wrote:
>  
>
> Agreed. What we could really use is a comprehensive "biopsychosocial" 
> (i.e.,
> biomedical, psychological and social) data set of signs, symptoms,
> treatments, history, etc. to help guide the development of health
> information tools that would be of meaningful use to clinicians, 
> researchers
> and consumers. See, for example, an outline of such an extensive data set
> that we compiled 10 years ago at 
> http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html. 
> <http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html.>
>
> Steve Beller
>
> From: [email protected] <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com> 
> [mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of Mark Spohr
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:03 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov
>
> Data.gov looks like a good start but there really isn't very much
> health data there. I searched the "Health and Nutrition" category and
> it only came up with 61 records. Most of these were Medicare spending
> reports for various time periods.
> I know the government collects a lot more data than this and it should
> be on this site.
>
> .Mark
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, fred trotter <mailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.com>
> <mailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.com> > wrote:
> > Hi,
> > More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> > open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the 
> questions are
> > excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other 
> times the
> > reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
> >
> > When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> > giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> > what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less
> likely
> > I am to be certain of the answer.
> >
> > Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> > from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> > asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> > community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have
> opinions
> > you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available 
> on the
> > www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely 
> users? Are
> > there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> > available on www.data.gov?
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of
> health
> > information? How would you like to see it evolve?
> >
> >
> >
> > 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> > www.data.gov?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Fred Trotter
> > http://www.fredtrotter.com <http://www.fredtrotter.com>
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> Mark Spohr, MD
>
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RE: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

2009-09-04 Thread Stephen Beller 
Agreed. What we could really use is a comprehensive "biopsychosocial" (i.e.,
biomedical, psychological and social) data set of signs, symptoms,
treatments, history, etc. to help guide the development of health
information tools that would be of meaningful use to clinicians, researchers
and consumers. See, for example, an outline of such an extensive data set
that we compiled 10 years ago at http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html.

 

Steve Beller

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Mark Spohr
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

 

  

Data.gov looks like a good start but there really isn't very much
health data there. I searched the "Health and Nutrition" category and
it only came up with 61 records. Most of these were Medicare spending
reports for various time periods.
I know the government collects a lot more data than this and it should
be on this site.

.Mark

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, fred trottermailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.com> > wrote:
> Hi,
>  More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
>  When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less
likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
> Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have
opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
>
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users?  Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
>
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of
health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
>
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> 
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

-- 
Mark Spohr, MD





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Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

2009-09-04 Thread Mark Spohr 
Data.gov looks like a good start but there really isn't very much
health data there.  I searched the "Health and Nutrition" category and
it only came up with 61 records.  Most of these were Medicare spending
reports for various time periods.
I know the government collects a lot more data than this and it should
be on this site.

.Mark


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, fred trotter wrote:
> Hi,
>          More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
>          When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
>         Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
>
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users?  Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
>
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
>
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
>
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> 
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>



-- 
Mark Spohr, MD

Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

2009-09-03 Thread Matthew King 
Fred,

This database is a goldmine for investigative journalists, activists,
research groups, grantwriters etc. I have seen it being used more and more
to provide data to these sorts of activities. For instance, a CHC might mine
the data to show thing are diverging health outcomes by race (health
disparities). This may then go into a grant application for money to improve
the health status in a particular area for a particular population and with
geospacial data, a particular location.

It will become more and more important as the data gets refined and the
investigators become more skilled.

m

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:42 PM, fred trotter  wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
> More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
> When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less
> likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
> Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users? Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of
> health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>


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Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

2009-09-03 Thread hungerregnuh 
Hi Fred,

I skimmed over just the healthcare related categories and groups, 
haven't done the rest.  Interesting sets of data, I think anyway, some 
useful data sets would be more information on healthcare spending across 
many organization's, not only medicare/medicaid, though this is likely 
going to be difficult of the statistics I have found they seem to vary 
widely.  Granted its not something easy to track but maybe drilling down 
deeper to get more specific numbers that can be measured.  Having some 
sense of healthcare expenditures I think would give some direction on 
which area's need to be fixed and which are important.  Right now there 
seems to be a lot of educated guessing as to what to fix, not that 
there's anything wrong with guessing, but there seems to be no emperical 
evidence for folks to focus on.

Regards,

On 09/03/2009 02:42 PM, fred trotter wrote:
>  
>
> Hi,
> More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the
> open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are
> excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the
> reporter has no clue what our movement is about)
>
> When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by
> giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of
> what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less 
> likely
> I am to be certain of the answer.
>
> Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available
> from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She
> asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the
> community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have 
> opinions
> you would prefer not to be recorded publicly.
>
> 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the
> www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users? Are
> there enough? Which ones do you find most promising?
>
> 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see
> available on www.data.gov?
>
> 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of 
> health
> information? How would you like to see it evolve?
>
> 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via
> www.data.gov?
>
> --
> Fred Trotter
> http://www.fredtrotter.com 
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> 


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