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
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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
Spohr
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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
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
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
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
