This document discusses efforts by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to promote open data and innovation in health care. It outlines initiatives like launching a collaborative project to develop a simple method for securely transmitting health information over the internet, publishing over 160,000 community health data metrics for the country, and morphing CHD into a broader CHDI that fuels a rapidly expanding ecosystem of innovation using government data. It also details how CHDI is now becoming a broader health data initiative and how clinical provider data is being liberalized via programs like Hospital Compare, Nursing Home Compare, and Dialysis Facility Compare.

1. A Historic Opportunity:
Unleashing the Power of Open Data and
Innovation to Improve Health
Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
@todd_park

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