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 d

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 goin

[openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov

2009-09-03 Thread fred trotter
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 re