Community Health Data Initiative launches

This morning, HHS and the Institute of Medicine launched the Community Health Data Initiative. Under the initiative, HHS health data will be made freely available so that software developers can create innovative applications and make the data more useful for consumers and communities. At the event, Secretary Sebelius explained the initiative, and early developers demonstrated their new applications.

Read and learn more about it

• HHS OpenGov website
• HHS Community Health Data Forum: Harnessing the Power of Information to Improve Health
• Anil Dash: A blog about making culture – The Health Graph
• Bing: Health map
• Palantir Technologies: AnalyzeThe.US
• Google: Making U.S. community health data accessible and useful
• California’s Sonoma County Network of Care for Healthy Communities
• Asthmapolis, which looks to deal with Asthma
• vHS Community Health Data Forum
• Google public policy blog: Making U.S. community health data accessible and useful

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