What to expect in 2014 Health Datapalooza you

What to expect in 2014 Health Datapalooza you -

What awaits you at Health Datapalooza 2014

May 22, 2014 Emily Newhook

Health Datapalooza is just around the corner - June 1-3, 2014 , the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC - and we could not be happier! Imagine thousands of companies, start-ups, universities, government agencies and individuals convening in one place to discuss the latest, the greatest advances in health data and explore how they can be used to improve patient outcomes.

Now in its fifth year, the Health Datapalooza is a national conference which launched in 2010 as part of government efforts to free health data. What began as a small gathering of 45 health care leaders has evolved into an annual event that attracts more than 2,000 data experts, technology developers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, managers of health system health and community stakeholders from around the world.

Dwane Spradlin is the general manager of the Consortium of health data (HDC), the group responsible for organizing the event. According Spradlin, one health reasons Datapalooza has really taken off since its creation is the universal recognition of the power that open health data holds for the entire healthcare continuum. "The concept of sharing information on health is a common dialogue within the health care system. It is more a question of "if", but now "how," said Spradlin.

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Health Datapalooza: Briefly

the welcome reception on Sunday evening with closing remarks on Tuesday afternoon, MHA @ GW will be there to cover some of the highlights. Here is an overview of what awaits you:

Dynamic Keynote Presentations

This year's speakers are a diverse mix of health care leaders and innovators who are required provide an interesting range of perspectives, ideas and perspectives:

• Adriana Lukas - founder of London quantified Self
• Atul Gawande - Professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School
• Elliott Fisher - director of the Dartmouth Institute for health policy and clinical practice
• Francis Collins. - Director of the National Institutes of health (NIH)
• Rt the Hon. Jeremy Hunt - Secretary of State for Health, UK
• Jonathan Bush - co-founder of athenahealth
• Karen Ignagni - President / CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
• Hon. Kathleen Sebelius - former Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Social Services
• Steven Brill - journalist and author of "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills us kill"
• Todd Park - Technology Chief of the United States officer
• Vinod Khosla - founder Khsola Ventures

interactive, educational sessions

The conference also features a wide variety of interactive educational sessions, organized seven educational tracks - business, clinical care, consumption, technological development, community, and a new general line of research. The tracks are designed to make it easier for participants to choose which sessions may be more relevant to their specific interests.

For example, the business track consists of six one-hour sessions that explore topics such as workplace health promotion plans, the role of retailers in the care system health of the United States, the future of consumer engagement and how emerging health data sources are used to improve well-being.

"the concept of sharing information on health is a common dialogue within the health care system. It is more a question of "if", but now "how", "- Data Consortium Health CEO Dwayne Spradlin

Code-a-Palooza

one of the conference features a code-Palooza is an annual event at Health Datapalooza connecting programmers, developers and hackers brainstorming opportunities, design and coding of new ways to use health data to create innovative tools and products. The challenge this year will use newly Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published data to enable developers to create applications that help consumers improve their health care decision making. The first three teams will receive $ 35,000 in total prizes.

Apps Expo

Participants are invited to explore new tools and innovative services and interact directly with the developers and experts who create data applications. For example, last year the participants had the opportunity to check:

• The Healthy Communities Network (HCN) - a platform based on the Web that provides data and information that help facilitate the planning of community health improvement and
• MyDrugCosts assessment -
• InstantPHR A mobile device and web based which allows consumers to health care to take informed purchasing prescribing decisions with their health care provider - a data visualization collection and management of care .. tools designed to help promote and enable the participation of patients.

due to the increased interest for this event "must attend", the expo floor plan has been significantly expanded this year to accommodate more innovative products and services.

Employment opportunities

With so many leaders in attendance Industry, Health Datapalooza is fertile ground for ads hot-off-the -press business transactions, data competitions, new studies and projects programs, intersectoral collaboration and more.

Will you be there?

"The landscape of healthcare is changing rapidly," said Spradlin. "With the continued implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the data is more important than ever" If you have any interest in what is provided in the open health data -. And how it will impact on the future of health administration, health Datapalooza is the place to be.

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