healthdata.gov challenge webinar
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Developer Challenges
Webinar Presentation
Thursday, July 19
On today’s call:
Adam Wong
Management and Program Analyst
ONC
Hemali Thakkar
Manager, Developer Challenge
Health 2.0
George Thomas
Chief Architect
HealthData.gov
Agenda for Today’s Meeting
§ ONC and the Investing in Innovation (i2) Program
§ An Introduction to the (first two of seven) HealthData.gov Domain and Platform Challenges
§ Q&A About the Challenges
ONC and i2
i2 Goals
• Better Health, Better Care, Better Value through Quality Improvement – Further the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services
– Highlight programs, activities, and issues of concern
• Spur Innovation and Highlight Excellence – Motivate, inspire, and lead
• Community building – Development of ecosystem
• Stimulate private sector investment
What is HealthData.gov?
• “HealthData.gov is a public resource designed to bring liberated health datasets, innovation challenges, and applications and tools to the public to help increase public knowledge and solve problems in health.”
– Todd Park, US Federal CTO • source
HealthData.gov i2 Challenges
• two types – three domain specific
• improve the integration and liquidity of data made available
– four platform specific • enhance the capabilities of the technology components
• 3 rounds – sequenced to leverage dependencies
• round 1: June through October 2102 • round 2: November 2012 through May 2013 • round 3: June through December 2013
HealthData.gov i2 Challenges
• June 2012 through October 2012 – Metadata (domain)
• apply cross domain from voluntary consensus standards organizations and defacto standards, design other domain specific metadata schemata
– HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing
– Simplified Sign On (platform) • enhance HDP infrastructure components with WebID
identity provider and relying party capabilities – HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing
– $35K: $20K 1st, $10K 2nd, $5K 3rd place (each)
First Domain Challenge
• Metadata – requests the application of existing voluntary
consensus standards for metadata common to all open government data
– and invites new designs for health domain specific metadata to classify datasets in our growing catalog, creating entities, attributes and relations
– that form the foundations for better discovery, integration and liquidity.
Cross Domain Standards
• W3C
– http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/
– other (…surprise us!)
Cross Domain Standards
• OGC – http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geosparql
• ‘defacto’ – http://qudt.org/ (from NASA)
• OMG – http://www.omg.org/spec/BMM/
Domain Specific Examples
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – Hospital Compare (Health Datapalooza 2011) – see blog post and presentation
• from data.gov.uk – environmental data (‘bathing water’, or beaches) – ‘Web 3.0’ API example
First Platform Challenge
• WebID based SSO – will improve community engagement – by providing simplified sign on (SSO) for external
users interacting across multiple HDP technology components,
– making it easier for community collaborators to contribute,
– leveraging new approaches to decentralized authentication.
About WebID
• Leverages existing Web infrastructure – X.509 certificates and TLS
• A 'mirrored claims' approach to authentication – externalizing LDAP, a human/app ‘API key’
• for more info, see – http://webid.info/
• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/ • http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki • http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/
Implementations
Where we’re going with WebID
• see (platform) challenge 4 – enabling very flexible and fine-grained access
control
• leads to data centric authorization – PCAST Health IT Report
• 'data element access service’ – “secure the data, not just the devices”
• US Fed CIO Steven VanRoekel
Timeline for both Challenges
• Submission Period Ends: October 2, 2012
• Winners Notified: Early November
Judging Criteria
See detailed info on www.health2challenge.org
For More Information
Contact George Thomas
HealthData.gov Chief Architect
Or
Hemali at [email protected]