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Health Datapalooza Would Benefit From Real Innovation Investment

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Enterprise Architect – Data Scientist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

AOL Government Bloggerhttp://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/

March 30, 2012

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Privacy Policy

• Build HealthDatagov (HDI 1):– These were all public domain data sets provided by HHS and

others.• Build the Health Data Infrastructure in the Cloud

(Medicare Zombie Hunter for HDI2):– This was the Medicare data set licensed by Peal Diver Inc.

for use within the restrictions of that agreement.• HPN Health Prize (Data Visualization and Modeling for

HDI 3):– HHP Release 3 Data Sets were used within their restrictions

to not release the data set.

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Overview

• My role at the US EPA, as their Senior Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist, and as lead for several Federal CIO Council activities, and since leaving government to become Director and Senior enterprise Architect-Data Scientist of Semantic Community, has been to Build HealthDatagov (Community Health Data Visualizations for HDI 1), Build the Health Data Infrastructure in the Cloud (Medicare Zombie Hunter for HDI2), and to suggest that the Health Datapalooza Would Benefit From Real Innovation Investment (HPN Health Prize Data Visualization and Modeling for HDI 3).

• Some Next Steps are in progress so those results will also be shown at the June 5-6th HDI 3 Event!

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Build HealthDatagov (HDI 1)

http://semanticommunity.info/HealthDataGov

Community Health Data Visualizations

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Build the Health Data Infrastructurein the Cloud (HDI 2)

http://semanticommunity.info/Build_the_Health_Data_Infrastructure_in_the_Cloud/Announcement

Medicare Zombie Hunter

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Health Datapalooza Would Benefit From Real Innovation Investment (HDI 3)

http://gov.aol.com/2012/03/23/health-datapalooza-would-benefit-from-real-innovation-investment/

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HPN Health Prize Data Visualization and Modeling for HDI 3

http://semanticommunity.info/HPN_Health_Prize

See Next Slide for: What Does aScatterplot Show About the Length of Hospital Stay VersusCharleson Index Segmented(“Trellised”) by Specialty?

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HPN Health Prize Data Visualization and Modeling for HDI 3

What is a Scatterplot?

http://semanticommunity.info/HPN_Health_Prize#What_is_a_Scatter_Plot.3f

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HPP Release 3 Data Sets and Results

http://semanticommunity.info/HPN_Health_Prize/Private

Note: This requires a password to access per their privacy policy.

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Some Next Steps

• Propose Work with Other Data Sets to the Heritage Health Data Prize Like The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS):– http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ahcd.htm

• Apply Intelligence Community Semantic Catalysts Tools (e.g. SIRA, Digital Reasoning, etc.) to Semantic MedLine.– http://skr3.nlm.nih.gov/SemMedDemo/Summary.do

Note: These results will also be shown at the June 5-6th HDI 3 Event!