Open government initiatives can be a boon to public health research and patient-centred
care but realizing the maximum benefit of such initiatives requires more than just dumping …

The health community relies on governmental survey, surveillance, and administrative data
to track epidemiologic trends, identify risk factors, and study the health care delivery system …

Objective: Government agencies are rapidly developing web portals to proactively publish
“open” data that are searchable, available in nonproprietary formats, and with unlimited use …

Within the last decade, a “quiet open data revolution” has diffused, whereby government
agencies are proactively publishing their data online in searchable directories and “open …

Objective: Structured focus groups with researchers and practitioners collected stakeholder
feedback on potential uses of open health data and New York's open data strategy. Setting …

Over the past decade, federal, state, and lo-cal governments have been liberating their data
to the public in open data platforms. This global movement was catalyzed in the United …

Openness and sharing of discovery lie at the heart of the scientific method. Yet historically,
the data and reports upon which they are based have not been easily accessible and often …

Open Data is part of a broad global movement that is not only advancing science and
scientific communication but also transforming modern society and how decisions are made …

Background Open health data has implications for clinical care, research, public health, and
health policy at regional, national, and global levels. No published attempts have been …

ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY DATA IS CRITICAL TO IN-novation, quality improvement, and
increased ef-ficiency in health care. The federal government has signaled that expanding …