Health Innovation Week 2011

HealthCa.mp/dc is a part of DC Health Innovation Week. It will be an exciting week in the National Capital Area with 4 of the 5 events taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health.
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The Schedule for DC Health Innovation Week is:

  • June 7th – #TheWalkingGallery by Regina Holliday and friends. Come and see this dynamic, live art show. Tickets are available athttp://thewalkinggallery.eventbrite.com.
  • June 8th – HealthCa.mp/dc. The un-conference to talk about “Vitality Through Data.”
  • June 9th –  The Health Data Initiative, organized by the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the National Institutes of Health, will encourage innovators to use health data to develop applications that raise awareness of health and health system performance, and spark community action to improve health.
  • June 10th – The Healthcare Innovation Summit at the Center for Total Health, organized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Kaiser Permanente and Vangent. The first in a series of discussions, leaders of health innovation centers and information technology, academia and policymakers will address the challenges and opportunities to improving health care through innovation.
  • June 11th – The Health 2.0 Code-a-Thon at the Center for Total Health, brings together developers, designers and raw data sets to build new applications and tools for improved health care. After being given an overview of health care issues, tools and data sets, attendees are asked to creatively design new tools for the health care space, using OpenGov data sets as well as private data sets to create their application. At the end of the day, developers present their application to the group, and the best solution receives an award. http://www.health2challenge.org/code-a-thon/

 

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