[OpenSpending] Insights into healthcare spending? (Dutch Audit Office)

Wed May 15 13:25:19 UTC 2013

Merci Mehdi,

Indeed lots of work to be done. Thanks for the pointers. I think here in
the Netherlands, data availability in the first place is an issue.
Hopefully with the Audit Office and our 'thought experiment' we'll be able
to provide a stronger argument to get the data not just public (which some
of it is) but also open (to do better pattern searches, etc.)

best,

Ton

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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Mehdi GUIRAUD <mehdi.guiraud at gmail.com>wrote:

> In France I don't remenber any noticing use of the healthcare data
> available. There's huge amount available thru the national statistics :
> INSEE but nothing really worth to show.
> I found it amazing since there's for example data from research and
> investments from pharmaceutics companies, most of the economics of the
> hospitals, etc ... so much work to do ;)
>
> http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/theme.asp?theme=6
>
>
> Mehdi Guiraud
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> 2013/5/15 Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org>
>
>> Ton,
>>
>> The US government this month released price listings on all essential
>> health care services and surgeries from private providers to the US
>> Medicare program, prompting stories and intriguing comparisons at all major
>> outlets:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/08/business/how-much-hospitals-charge.html?ref=business
>>
>> The data published openly is available here:
>> http://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/
>>
>> I'd be interested to see if government spending on private health care
>> providers has been opened up in other countries as well.
>>
>> Anders
>>
>> On 15 May 2013 06:26, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm currently preparing an experimental workshop with the Dutch national
>>> audit office. The central question there is how audit processes might be
>>> different if open data is playing a role. As a test case they have selected
>>> the healthcare costs dossier. A report on healthcare costs was published
>>> recently and now they want to explore how this would have been different
>>> had there been more open healthcare data.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone here who has some experience with open data concerning
>>> healthcare spending somewhere in the world and/or examples connected to
>>> healthcare spending?
>>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> Ton
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