Hi Fred, I skimmed over just the healthcare related categories and groups, haven't done the rest. Interesting sets of data, I think anyway, some useful data sets would be more information on healthcare spending across many organization's, not only medicare/medicaid, though this is likely going to be difficult of the statistics I have found they seem to vary widely. Granted its not something easy to track but maybe drilling down deeper to get more specific numbers that can be measured. Having some sense of healthcare expenditures I think would give some direction on which area's need to be fixed and which are important. Right now there seems to be a lot of educated guessing as to what to fix, not that there's anything wrong with guessing, but there seems to be no emperical evidence for folks to focus on.
Regards, On 09/03/2009 02:42 PM, fred trotter wrote: > > > Hi, > More and more, I get interview requests asking for me to give the > open source perspective to healthcare issues. Sometimes, the questions are > excellent, showing pretty deep insights into the problems (other times the > reporter has no clue what our movement is about) > > When a reporter asks me good questions, I like to reward them by > giving them not only me own insights and opinions but also a sampling of > what the community at large thinks. The better the question, the less > likely > I am to be certain of the answer. > > Recently, a reporter wanted my take on the information available > from data.gov from the perspective of the FOSS health IT community. She > asked the following specific questions that I wanted to pass on to the > community at large. Feel free to reply to me privately if you have > opinions > you would prefer not to be recorded publicly. > > 1. What is your view of the healthcare related data sets available on the > www.data.gov Web site? How useful are they? Who are the likely users? Are > there enough? Which ones do you find most promising? > > 2. What additional healthcare related data sets would you like to see > available on www.data.gov? > > 3. How significant do you think www.data.gov is as an open source of > health > information? How would you like to see it evolve? > > 4. Do you foresee any barriers to more healthcare data being shared via > www.data.gov? > > -- > Fred Trotter > http://www.fredtrotter.com <http://www.fredtrotter.com> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
