Health data on data.gov: A research on status quo of open health data
Author(s)
Wang, Yongyi
Zhang, Hui
Wu, Dan
Chen, Jiangping
Issue Date
2019-03-15
Keyword(s)
Health data
Open government data
Data quality
Abstract
A growing number of agencies and local governments are now making health data freely available to the public. The goal of this paper is to understand the current status of the open health data. This will provide guidance to the public and researchers for making better use of them. We collected 1,942 datasets from the health catalog on Data.gov and performed a preliminary analysis of them on their subject areas, data formats, data providers, availability, and other attributes. We found that the overall usage of the datasets on the plat-form was not high and suggested that providing certain interactive functions or feedback mechanism might help to boost the usage of open health data.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2019 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103362
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103362
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2019 Yongyi Wang, Hui Zhang, Dan Wu, and Jiangping Chen
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