"The Health Ministry must be able to urge the hospitals to open data on the affected patients ... a special mechanism supervising the circulation of vaccines and medicine across the country. "The fake vaccine cases are just one of the rampant problems ...
For the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the move to cloud services offers ... Along with cloud, D’Souza said NLM is a big supporter of open data. The library has developed more than 290 application programming interfaces ...
Genomics research is revolutionizing medicine and a key to finally unlocking the doors ... lack of standardization, difficulties of open data management, the inability to capture and share organizational knowledge and best practices around Omics data ...
medicine, health care, and the environment. He is also the Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Open Data Group that provides technology for deploying predictive models into operational systems. For his contributions to big data and data science ...
WAKEFIELD, MA--(Marketwired - Jun 28, 2016) - The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source, open-data knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive translational research data, today announced ...
New open data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reveals ... the financial interactions between manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologicals and medical supplies to individual physicians and teaching hospitals. The 2015 payments included ...
"To truly achieve precision medicine in everyday patient care ... Hortonworks is an industry leading innovator that creates, distributes and supports enterprise-ready open data platforms and modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence ...
"The work that Orion Health is doing to further precision medicine and the tools they provide are critical ... as well as the many success stories of customers using their open-data platform." The timing couldn't be better, Amendola said, given that ...

Gerhard B. Holt, our senior fellow with a special interest in health policy and Joseph Bernstein, our co-founder published a recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the need for transparency in medical costs.

Hidden prices are higher prices. When information about price is obscured, markets cannot function effectively. This idea should be intuitively obvious: Only a fool visits a used-car dealer without some knowledge of what the desired vehicle should cost.

Despite this, nearly 20 percent of our economy attempts to function without clear price information. Specifically, health-care prices in America are hidden prices.

Google co-founder Larry Page made a rare appearance at the TED conference and expounded on a few ideas he thinks will change the world. “Wouldn’t it be amazing to have anonymous medical records available to all research doctors?” said Page.

Techcrunch has an excellent article about open medical data and its value.