Re: [PLUG] Todd Park speaking about open data, Fri 2/25, 11:30 AM

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:24:03PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> The description of the project at
> http://www.hhs.gov/open/plan/opengovernmentplan/initiatives/initiative.html
> looks quite promising, and it sounds like what they'd be releasing
> aren't anyone's individual medical records, but rather community-level
> aggregate data.  Obviously any open data can be used for good or evil,
> but since our tax dollars are paying for this data to be generated,
> isn't it better for it to be open to all?

Here's a link to some projects people have already built using Open
Gov health data:

http://health2challenge.org/blog/category/videos/

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