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

Wed May 15 13:50:23 UTC 2013

Hi Anders,

thanks, useful example!

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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Anders Pedersen
<anders.pedersen at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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