ENTRIES TAGGED "health data"
Yelp partners with NYC and SF on restaurant inspection data
A joint effort by New York City, San Francisco, and Yelp brings government health data into Yelp reviews.
One of the key notions in my “Government as a Platform” advocacy has been that there are other ways to partner with the private sector besides hiring contractors and buying technology. One of the best of these is to provide data that can be used by the private sector to build or enrich their own citizen-facing services. Yes,…
Data from health care reviews could power “Yelp for health care” startups
Data-driven decision engines will need patient experience to complete the feedback loop.
Given where my work and health has taken me this year, I’ve been thinking much more about the relationship of the Internet and health data to accountability and patient-driven health care.
When I was looking for a place in Maine to go for…
When data disrupts health care
The convergence of data, privacy and cost have created a unique opportunity to reshape health care.
Health care appears immune to disruption. It’s a space where the stakes are high, the incumbents are entrenched, and lessons from other industries don’t always apply.
Yet, in a recent conversation between Tim O’Reilly and Roger Magoulas it became evident that we’re approaching an unparalleled opportunity for health care change. O’Reilly and Magoulas explained how the convergence…
A marriage of data and caregivers gives Dr. Atul Gawande hope for health care
How transparency, real-time feedback, and lessons from the police can improve health outcomes.
Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. His long-form narratives and books have helped…
Balancing health privacy with innovation will rely on improving informed consent
In the age of big data, Deven McGraw emphasizes trust, education and transparency in assuring health privacy.
Society is now faced with how to balance the privacy of the individual patient with the immense social good that could come through great health data sharing. Making health data more open and fluid holds both the potential to be hugely beneficial for patients and enormously harmful. As my colleague Alistair Croll put it this summer,
StrataRx: Data science and health(care)
A call for data scientists, technologists, health professionals, and business leaders to convene.
By Mike Loukides and Jim Stogdill
We are launching a conference at the intersection of health, health care, and data. Why?
Our health care system is in crisis. We are experiencing epidemic levels of obesity, diabetes, and other preventable conditions while at the same time…
Esther Dyson on health data, “preemptive healthcare” and the next big thing
Dyson says it's time to focus on maintaining good health, as opposed to healthcare.
If we look ahead to the next decade, it’s worth wondering whether the way we think about health and health care will have shifted. Will health care technology be a panacea? Will it drive even higher costs, creating a broader divide between digital haves and have-nots? Will opening health data empower patients or empower companies?
As ever, there will…
Health records support genetics research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Michael Italia on making use of data collected in health care settings.
Michael Italia from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia discusses the tools and methods his team uses to manage health care data.
Top Stories: June 11-15, 2012
The future of desktops, ethics and big data, narrative vs spreadsheets.
This week on O'Reilly: Josh Marinacci predicted that 90% of computer users will rely on mobile, but 10% will still need desktops; the authors of "Ethics of Big Data" explored data's trickiest issues; and Narrative Science CTO Kris Hammond discussed narrative's role in data analytics.
mHealth apps are just the beginning of the disruption in healthcare from open health data
Rockstars from music, government and industry convened around healthcare at the 2012 Health Datapalooza
Two years ago, the potential of government making health information as useful as weather data may well have felt like an abstraction to many observers. In June 2012, real health apps and services are here, holding the potential to massive disrupt healthcare for the better.
Radar 
Radar on 
Radar on 
Radar on 
Radar on 