The Innovation, Data & Healthcare Ecosystem

Bryan Sivak, CTO & Entrepreneur in Residence

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

December 11, 2013

Health care is a $2.8T industry in the U.S., 18% of our GDP and growing

We are looking for disruptors, both inside and outside of government Innovation and disruption are necessary as we undergo the most dramatic transformation in health care since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965

Health care has been in a dramatic flux, all set in

motion by the implementation of the

Affordable Care Act

We are now living in a health care system where

data is driving change

Payment reform

Data is changing…

Payment reform

Data is changing…

Individual health interaction

Payment reform

Data is changing…

Individual health interaction

Treatment @ the point of care

Make health data openly available

Continuously educate participants in ecosystem

Disseminate data broadly

Improve health, health care and delivery of human services by harnessing the power of data and fostering a culture of innovative uses of data in public and private sector institutions, communities, research groups and policy making arenas

OPEN DATA EXECUTION PLAN GOALS:

Advancing HealthData.gov site

Highlighting departmental assets that support achieving HHS strategic initiatives

Educating new and existing, internal and external participants

Implementing administration and departmental policies that foster openness

Enabling and incentivizing the health data ecosystem

LAST 3 YEARS FOCUSED ON LIBERATING DATA

Changed the default setting for data from closed to open

HOSPITAL COST DATA

CMS released charge data for most common inpatient and outpatient hospital

procedures

BLUE BUTTON

Patients can now view, download and transmit their health data Growing ecosystem of patient facing applications and tools New opportunities available

New datasets from CMS • Archived hospital compare data

NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN 2014

New datasets from CMS Pilot external data enclave, containing claims and clinical data from many sources

• Allows users to access multiple types of data; including patient claims and provider data

• Means less waiting and more timely access to data

NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN 2014

New datasets from CMS Pilot external data enclave, containing claims and clinical data from many sources Expansion of NIH public access policy • NIH research manuscripts required to be online 1

year after publication

NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN 2014

HELPING DISRUPTORS

We are working with hospitals and care delivery networks to establish pilot test beds for promising health apps using data

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Help us disrupt the health care ecosystem • Tell us what data you want to use • Help us define a strategically relevant data set • Share your data with us • Tell us how you are using health data

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Help us disrupt the health care ecosystem • Tell us what data you want to use • Help us define a strategically relevant data set • Share your data with us • Tell us how you are using health data

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Help us disrupt the health care ecosystem • Tell us what data you want to use • Help us define a strategically relevant data set • Share your data with us • Tell us how you are using health data

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Help us disrupt the health care ecosystem • Tell us what data you want to use • Help us define a strategically relevant data set • Share your data with us • Tell us how you are using health data

MORE INFORMATION

On the web at HealthData.gov On Twitter: @HealthDatagov / @BryanSivak