Live HHS, IOM webcast tomorrow: Harnessing the Power of Data to Improve Health
Watch the Health Data Initiative Forum 2011 live webcast: http://www.hhs.gov/live/
Tomorrow, Thursday, June 9 at 9 a.m. EDT, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Institute of Medicine will hold a day-long forum bringing together more than 500 people to explore how health data can create tools and applications to support more informed decision-making by consumers/patients, health care systems, and public health and community officials.
The discussion, “Harnessing the Power of Data to Improve Health,” will be shared via a free webcast. Tune in for an exciting announcement from our president and CEO, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey at 4:45 p.m. RWJF Senior Program Officer Michael Painter will be a panelist at on the “Health Data in the Era of Accountable Care” discussion taking place at 1 p.m. ET.
Other featured presenters include, Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Officer; Tim O'Reilly, O’Reilly Media; Matt Miller, NPR; Harvey Fineberg, IOM President and Todd Park, HHS Chief Technology Officer. Detail on the full agenda and featured speakers can be accessed here. You can also join in the discussion on twitter through the following hashtag: #healthapps.
The event is part of the Health Data Initiative, a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, data geeks, community activists and policy makers to utilize health data to develop products and applications to raise awareness of health and health system performance and spark action to improve health. The RWJF/University of Wisconsin-funded County Health Rankings project is a good example of how data can be used to help people improve health every day.
- See the Agenda (The full day will be webcast live)
- Read an interview with Todd Park on NewPublicHealth about how government data is being liberated and leveraged to improve health.
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