The DocGraph Journal is sponsoring Cajun Codefest 2014 (April 23-25 in Lafayette, LA) and simultaneously holding a virtual codeathon focused on the recently released DocGraphRX – Medicare D prescribing data. Since our friends in Louisiana themed this years event “Aging in Place” and we’ve spoken with dozens of community members about DocGraphRX in the last …
After many months of mild government employee harassment, and delays based mostly on “other projects” that HHS has been working on, (have I ever told you how many of my friends at HHS were pulled on to the healthcare.gov launch… almost all of them), I am proud to announce that a new, improved update of …
Fair Health was formed as the result of a settlement between a group of insurance companies and the District Attorney’s office of NY. The site provides a front end to its considerable pricing data, but the data is coded in CPT codes. Fair Health has taken the approach of licensing CPT descriptions from the AMA, …
HIMSS always has lots of Open Source and Open Data, but you have to know where to look. This year, the standout sessions were from the FDA Open Data talk and Fair Health. The FDA is slowly announcing its new set of APIs. You can read more at open.fda.gov and follow the latest at the …
I have just realized that I had missed a very comprehensive analysis of the DocGraph RX dataset by Janos Hajagos. He looked at providers in Hawaii to limit the scope. You can see his full sized chart here. You can look at his sourcecode here. Highlights from the post: The second core aspect of the …
In an effort to assist the DocGraph Project with adding state-level physician credentialing data, the Community has started working with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. The Berkman Center is working to farm out the state-level FOIA issues to Harvard-trained FOIA experts each state. The Berkman Center is the leading expert …
Wired article about DocGraph by Sarah Mitroff on 11/27/2012 http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/healthcare-data/
Jen Wike from opensource.com published this article on how the DocGraph data set could provide object doctor rankings!
Gigaom article by Ki Mae Heussner http://gigaom.com/2012/11/16/who-are-the-doctors-most-trusted-by-doctors-big-data-can-tell-you/
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