This is a presentation given for a HealthData.gov Developer Challenge; see
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/health-data-platform-metadata-challenge/
and/or
http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/health-data-platform-simple-sign-on-challenge/
(both links contain the same embedded video and deck)
2. On today’s call:
Adam Wong Hemali Thakkar George
Thomas
Management and Manager, Developer
Program Analyst Chief Architect
Challenge
ONC
Health 2.0 HealthData.gov
3. Agenda for Today’s Meeting
ONC and the Investing in Innovation (i2)
Program
AnIntroduction to the (first two of seven)
HealthData.gov Domain and Platform
Challenges
Q&A About the Challenges
5. i2 Goals
• Better Health, Better Care, Better Value through Quality
Improvement
– Further the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services
– Highlight programs, activities, and issues of concern
• Spur Innovation and Highlight Excellence
– Motivate, inspire, and lead
• Community building – Development of ecosystem
• Stimulate private sector investment
6. What is HealthData.gov?
• “HealthData.gov is a public resource designed
to bring liberated health datasets, innovation
challenges, and applications and tools to the
public to help increase public knowledge and
solve problems in health.”
– Todd Park, US Federal CTO
• source
7. HealthData.gov i2 Challenges
• two types
– three domain specific
• improve the integration and liquidity of data made
available
– four platform specific
• enhance the capabilities of the technology components
• 3 rounds
– sequenced to leverage dependencies
• round 1: June through October 2102
• round 2: November 2012 through May 2013
• round 3: June through December 2013
8. HealthData.gov i2 Challenges
• June 2012 through October 2012
– Metadata (domain)
• apply cross domain from voluntary consensus standards
organizations and defacto standards, design other
domain specific metadata schemata
– HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing
– Simplified Sign On (platform)
• enhance HDP infrastructure components with WebID
identity provider and relying party capabilities
– HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing
– $35K: $20K 1st, $10K 2nd, $5K 3rd place (each)
9. First Domain Challenge
• Metadata
– requests the application of existing voluntary
consensus standards for metadata common to all
open government data
– and invites new designs for health domain specific
metadata to classify datasets in our growing
catalog, creating entities, attributes and relations
– that form the foundations for better discovery,
integration and liquidity.
12. Domain Specific Examples
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
– Hospital Compare (Health Datapalooza 2011)
– see blog post and presentation
• from data.gov.uk
– environmental data (‘bathing water’, or beaches)
– ‘Web 3.0’ API example
13. First Platform Challenge
• WebID based SSO
– will improve community engagement
– by providing simplified sign on (SSO) for external
users interacting across multiple HDP technology
components,
– making it easier for community collaborators to
contribute,
– leveraging new approaches to decentralized
authentication.
14. About WebID
• Leverages existing Web infrastructure
– X.509 certificates and TLS
• A 'mirrored claims' approach to authentication
– externalizing LDAP, a human/app ‘API key’
• for more info, see
– http://webid.info/
• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/
• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki
• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Implementatio
ns
15. Where we’re going with WebID
• see (platform) challenge 4
– enabling very flexible and fine-grained access
control
• leads to data centric authorization
– PCAST Health IT Report
• 'data element access service’
– “secure the data, not just the devices”
• US Fed CIO Steven VanRoekel
16. Timeline for both Challenges
• Submission Period Ends: October
2, 2012
• Winners Notified: Early November