CA health dept. launches Open Data Portal

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Economics

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has launched an Open Data Portal to provide user-friendly access to publicly available information for researchers, clinicians, developers and the public.

The concept of “Open Data” describes data that are freely available, machine-readable and formatted according to national technical standards to facilitate visibility and reuse of published data. CDPH is releasing aggregated data meeting four “open” criteria, including public accessibility, availability on multiple formats, free of charge and unlimited use and distribution rights, according to the agency.

Data on the site are diverse, and they include poverty rates, birth and death profiles, West Nile virus prevalence, ER asthma hospitalizations by zip code and age, and locations of healthcare facilities.

“We are committed to increasing public access to one of the State’s most valuable assets—non-confidential health and human services data while also ensuring privacy and confidentiality,” explained CDPH on the web site.

Visit the portal here.

 

 

Laura Pedulli

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