[Gnumed-devel] address@hidden: RE: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov]

[Karsten Hilbert]

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> 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.

This, I believe, is a useful page to link to from the Wiki.

Karsten

> Steve Beller
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> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Mark Spohr
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:03 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov
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> 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<address@hidden
> <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
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> >
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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> >
> >
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> -- 
> Mark Spohr, MD
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