Sorry, I didn't include this in my first email but it took some digging to find this link again.
http://www.ahd.com/ Something like the link above I think would be more useful. On 09/04/2009 07:13 AM, Stephen Beller wrote: > > > Agreed. What we could really use is a comprehensive "biopsychosocial" > (i.e., > biomedical, psychological and social) data set of signs, symptoms, > treatments, history, etc. to help guide the development of health > information tools that would be of meaningful use to clinicians, > researchers > and consumers. See, for example, an outline of such an extensive data set > that we compiled 10 years ago at > http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html. > <http://nhds.com/clinical_dataset.html.> > > Steve Beller > > From: openhealth@yahoogroups.com <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:openhealth@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>] On > Behalf Of Mark Spohr > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:03 AM > To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com <mailto:openhealth%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Re: [openhealth] Open Source HIT and data.gov > > 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 > <mailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.com> > <mailto:fred.trotter%40gmail.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 <http://www.fredtrotter.com> > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > Mark Spohr, MD > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
