HHS and Institute of Medicine Promote Community Health Data Initiative

HHS and the Institute of Medicine launch a new initiative to make health data more usable for consumers and communities. This event, at the IOM, features demonstrations of innovative applications for combining and displaying health and healthcare data to assist communities in new effort for disease prevention, health promotion and measurement of healthcare quality and performance.



IOM President Harvey Fineberg; HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; HHS Deputy Secretary Bill Corr; Applications Developers

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 June 2 event, Secretary Sebelius explains the initiative, and early developers demonstrated their new applications. See more at the HHS OpenGov website http://www.hhs.gov/open/datasets/communityhealthdata.html

Design Framework for HHS’s Community Health Data Initiative