Last week’s successful wrap of the 2019 Health Datapalooza™ (HDP) conference by AcademyHealth marks the tenth anniversary since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a small group of innovators to explore “creative new uses” for publicly available data. As a program director at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2010, I remember the excitement this relatively humble event sparked by the Government’s bold and open call to engage the public and industry to “spark community action to improve health.” This commentary presents my observations on this year’s proceedings from the vantage point of a participant and Steering Committee Member…”
“… the central ethos of HDP: to seek out and focus on good as we endeavor to unlock the full potential of health data.”
“Throughout the conference, both participants and speakers embraced, discussed, and sometimes struggled to address these three questions:
- How can we manage the need for healthy tension between data privacy and patient protection on one hand, and meaningful innovation on the other, to accelerate advances in healthcare?…”
Source: Three Takeaways from the 2019 Health Datapalooza – By Abdul R Shaikh, April 7, 2019. LinkedIn.
