DocGraph Omni was a website that we used to display a merged set of the open data that is available on healthcare providers. It was a good idea, but it did not work. Or at least, it is used so infrequently that it is not worth the resources that DocGraph is spending on it. Omni …
The DocGraph Journal creates multiple, unprecedented datasets to improve healthcare. It is focused on building an open community of data scientists primed to share analysis of the torrential amount of new healthcare data posted by federal and state governments. The DocGraph Journal interfaces government affairs (with HHS and CMS), to journalism organizations (O’Reilly Media, US …
Check out Janos Hajagos’ post “Visualizing the DocGraph for Wyoming Medicare Providers”. Beautiful work Janos!
Today, word came out that NY released taxi data that has been entirely reidentified. The technique and concepts to conduct the attack can be found here, and I also found the slashdot discussion interesting. The result is that the identity and paths of specific named taxi cabs is now public information. This is not entirely …
The DocGraph Alliance is a new group of organizations committed to supporting data journalism and data science community efforts. Three global leaders in healthcare, athenahealth, CareSet, and Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada), have signed on as founding members of the Alliance. The DocGraph Alliance’s community mission is to encourage an …
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Fred Trotter, co-founder of The DocGraph Journal, will be speaking at Health Datapalooza in D.C. this week! Health Datapalooza is a national conference focused on liberating health data, and bringing together the companies, startups, academics, government agencies, and individuals with the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data to improve patient outcomes. …
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To catch everyone up, here is the brief sequence of events: CMS released groundbreaking procedure data about providers in the US who bill Medicare. ONC sponsored a coding contest to make the data useful to consumers. DocGraph released Omni, the first tool to allow the browsing of open doctor data by the public. CMS released …
The new procedure data set was just uploaded by CMS. In major points for style, they released the data a 12:01 am. You are probably wondering: How do I work with this data? If you are comfortable with MySQL or MariaDB this will help:
Unless you have been living under a rock (or you are just not “into” healthcare data journalism) you know that CMS is planning on releasing a massive data set about how doctors provide healthcare to Medicare patients (of course patient privacy will be protected). This is a very exciting day. The Obama administration, HHS and CMS …
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