HDC Webinar Series

Introduced by Dwayne Spradlin, CEO, Health Data Consortium

Liberating Health Data: What We Learned in New YorkDr. Nirav Shah, Commissioner of Health NYS

Liberating Health Data: What WeLearned in New York

Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPHCommissioner of Health, NYS

HEALTH DATA CONSORTIUMWebinar

NYS Health Data

• March 2013 launch of health.data.ny.gov• NYS won the first annual Health Data Liberator

Award from the Health Data Consortium• Will help state achieve goal of Triple Aim –

improved patient care, better populationhealth and lower costs

• Played major role in Medicaid redesign efforts

What is the Data?

• Baby names• Restaurant inspections• Weekly nursing home bed census• Student BMIs from 680 school districts• Hospital charge data

Health Data = Business Opportunity

• Digital Health Accelerator: Largest in the U.S.– 8 cos. designed new apps– $4.2 m funding– 8 venture capital and strategic investors; 23

provider orgs in NY• Code-a-thon & Innovation Summit in Dec.

Health Data = Better Health

• Sepsis; can see spikes in claims data• USPSTF Grade A/B recommendations• Reduced inappropriate PCIs from 23% to 8%• Eliminated use of growth hormone• Data for Health Homes and PCMHs – more

integrated care, more prevention

Data Lessons from New York

• Patients own the data• Privacy of health data is essential• “The value we create today is by sharing.” –

Ginni Rometty, IBM• Push to release data comes from the top• Learn from other industries; GPS, weather,

travel

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