PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) – DocGraph today released the first in a series of Cancer Moonshot datasets during Digital Pharma East. The data details how cancer patients enter and exit hospitals and its release was first announced by Vice President Joe Biden last June during the Cancer Moonshot Summit in Washington, DC. “The data is aggregated …
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WASHINGTON, September 28, 2016 – Health data scientist Fred Trotter presented today at the White House Open Data Innovation Summit around national health data transparency. Trotter is the founder of DocGraph which released the US government’s first national Provider referral pattern data in 2012 that enabled researchers, journalists, and companies around the nation to provide …
Health data scientist Fred Trotter joined Vice President Joe Biden and other national healthcare leaders today for the invitation only National Cancer Moonshot Summit. The Vice President announced that Trotter’s company, DocGraph, will release an open cancer dataset this year. The new dataset contains summarized information about almost a million Medicare cancer patients and more than …
CMS has released an updated version of the DocGraph teaming data set* that was redacted on October 5, 2015. The DocGraph Teaming data set documents how healthcare providers in the U.S. work together. We believe this release corrects the critical issues we identified prior to the redaction. Access to the raw data can be found …
Recently, HHS released a proposed rule regarding new regulations for health insurance companies. The specific document is called: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2016 In that proposed rule were two open data concepts that are worth noting: A suggestion that insurance companies be required to release …
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Fred Trotter has been working with the PubMed API, related to WikiProject Medicine and the UCSF 2014 Elective class. Both have goals to evaluate and improve the medical content on Wikipedia. You can learn how to search for, and download data about specific articles using the PubMed API on Fred Trotter’s blog post here.
UPDATE (May 20, 2015) It looks like the forces for open data won this one! Here is the summary at fiercehealth and the actual policy change letter sent to payers. If you spend much time in the patient community you meet someone who has been burned, badly by the “out of network” game that insurance companies …
The DocGraph Summit was a great success, a big thanks to everyone who made it down. We filled our day discussing current open health data initiatives, questions, and goals. We are grateful to Houston Technology Center for providing an excellent venue, and we are already scheming for the 2nd annual Summit next year! Check out …
The DocGraph Summit is just around the corner! This “unconference” will include short presentations on current projects of the participants, and discussions on the topics, challenges, and ideas deemed most relevant and paramount to the open health data community. Our goal is to set an atmosphere conducive to in-depth dialogue, concept mapping, networking, and brainstorming. …
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