Data.gov looks like a good start but there really isn't very much health data there. I searched the "Health and Nutrition" category and it only came up with 61 records. Most of these were Medicare spending reports for various time periods. I know the government collects a lot more data than this and it should be on this site.
.Mark On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, fred trotter<fred.trot...@gmail.com> 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 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Mark Spohr, MD
