PROTECTING ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

Open Health Data and Electronic Innovation As A Means to Healthier Communities

O'Reilly Radar (Jun 2 2010)

The National Association of Counties (NACO), GE, Bing, Healthways, and Google have created internet applications to reveal health information to the public. The goal of this initiative, which is driven by Health and Human Services (HHS), is to enable "...citizens to make better health decisions and providers to make data-driven policy." If successful, this project will "'make our community data as useful to the world as weather data or other types of data is to other parts of American life,'" said HHS's chief technology officer Todd Park.