Top 10 NewPublicHealth Posts of 2011 rwjf.org
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Here’s a glimpse into the inaugural year of NewPublicHealth, and the top posts by popularity.
What to Expect at the Health Data Initiative Forum: A Q&A with Todd Park
NPH: What are examples of government data that is available for use now?
Todd Park: I’ll start with community health data. We launched something called the Health Indicators Warehouse. It was launched in February of this year. It’s a website that contains national, state, regional, and local community health and health care performance metrics, as well as drivers of health. For example, smoking rates, obesity rates, rates of access to healthy food. It includes over 150 Medicare indicators of prevalence of disease, utilization of services, quality and prevention at the community level, which Medicare has never released before...
NPH: How is the government-generated health data used beyond apps?
Todd Park: Healthdata.gov is the site that we launched in February that is the universal inventory of all the data that we’re making publicly available. On healthdata.gov, there is an apps expo run by health 2.0, which showcases a growing array of examples of applications that leverage health data to do useful things. The health data is going everywhere.