This group might be interested in this NY Times piece that ran yesterday: "To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/to-make-hospitals-less-deadly-a-dose-of-data/
I know our firm would like to see a more structured and consistent approach to data sharing. It doesn't necessarily need to be RDF, just standing up well-documented APIs with standardized schemas would be hugely useful. A couple of our clients would really like to streamline the process necessary to consume Hospital Compare data, for example... Eric || Eric Miller || 503.488.5951 (office) or 503.780.1847 (mobile) || skype: squishymedia On Dec 5, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Lin MD, Simon wrote: > Marking up those data and making them available would be great! Things like > hospital size, rating, etc. > > ================================================== > Simon Lin, MD | Director, Biomedical Informatics Research Center | Marshfield > Clinic Research Foundation | 1000 N Oak Ave, Marshfield, WI 54449 | > 715-221-7299 | lin.si...@mcrf.mfldclin.edu | www.marshfieldclinic.org/birc > > OUT OF OFFICE: Dec 9-11; For scheduling assistance, please contact Crystal > Gumz, Administrative Secretary | 715-221-6403 |gumz.crys...@mcrf.mfldclin.edu > > > > From: Bradley, Lily (HHS/ASPE) [mailto:lily.brad...@hhs.gov] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 4:27 PM > To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: health care schema > > I work on open data at the US Department of Health and Human Services. > > Are there schema/linked data efforts that could help us markup HHS data > better? Beyond, medical/biomedical/drugs, for instance, HHS statistical data? > > Would love to hear your thoughts. > > Thanks > > The contents of this message may contain private, protected and/or privileged > information. If you received this message in error, you should destroy the > e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from > retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained > within. Please contact the sender and advise of the erroneous delivery by > return e-mail or telephone. Thank you for your cooperation.
