Developer Challenges

Webinar Presentation

Thursday, July 19

On today’s call:

Adam Wong

Management and Program Analyst

ONC

Hemali Thakkar

Manager, Developer Challenge

Health 2.0

George Thomas

Chief Architect

HealthData.gov

Agenda for Today’s Meeting

§ ONC and the Investing in Innovation (i2) Program

§ An Introduction to the (first two of seven) HealthData.gov Domain and Platform Challenges

§ Q&A About the Challenges

ONC and i2

i2 Goals

•  Better Health, Better Care, Better Value through Quality Improvement –  Further the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services

–  Highlight programs, activities, and issues of concern

•  Spur Innovation and Highlight Excellence –  Motivate, inspire, and lead

•  Community building – Development of ecosystem

•  Stimulate private sector investment

What is HealthData.gov?

•  “HealthData.gov is a public resource designed to bring liberated health datasets, innovation challenges, and applications and tools to the public to help increase public knowledge and solve problems in health.”

– Todd Park, US Federal CTO •  source

HealthData.gov i2 Challenges

•  two types – three domain specific

•  improve the integration and liquidity of data made available

– four platform specific • enhance the capabilities of the technology components

•  3 rounds – sequenced to leverage dependencies

•  round 1: June through October 2102 •  round 2: November 2012 through May 2013 •  round 3: June through December 2013

HealthData.gov i2 Challenges

•  June 2012 through October 2012 – Metadata (domain)

• apply cross domain from voluntary consensus standards organizations and defacto standards, design other domain specific metadata schemata

– HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing

– Simplified Sign On (platform) • enhance HDP infrastructure components with WebID

identity provider and relying party capabilities – HealthData.gov blog post, Challenge.gov listing

– $35K: $20K 1st, $10K 2nd, $5K 3rd place (each)

First Domain Challenge

• Metadata – requests the application of existing voluntary

consensus standards for metadata common to all open government data

– and invites new designs for health domain specific metadata to classify datasets in our growing catalog, creating entities, attributes and relations

– that form the foundations for better discovery, integration and liquidity.

Cross Domain Standards

• W3C

– http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/ – http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/

– other (…surprise us!)

Cross Domain Standards

• OGC – http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geosparql

•  ‘defacto’ – http://qudt.org/ (from NASA)

•  OMG – http://www.omg.org/spec/BMM/

Domain Specific Examples

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – Hospital Compare (Health Datapalooza 2011) – see blog post and presentation

•  from data.gov.uk – environmental data (‘bathing water’, or beaches) – ‘Web 3.0’ API example

First Platform Challenge

• WebID based SSO – will improve community engagement – by providing simplified sign on (SSO) for external

users interacting across multiple HDP technology components,

– making it easier for community collaborators to contribute,

– leveraging new approaches to decentralized authentication.

About WebID

•  Leverages existing Web infrastructure – X.509 certificates and TLS

•  A 'mirrored claims' approach to authentication – externalizing LDAP, a human/app ‘API key’

•  for more info, see – http://webid.info/

• http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/ • http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki • http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/

Implementations

Where we’re going with WebID

•  see (platform) challenge 4 – enabling very flexible and fine-grained access

control

•  leads to data centric authorization – PCAST Health IT Report

•  'data element access service’ – “secure the data, not just the devices”

• US Fed CIO Steven VanRoekel

Timeline for both Challenges

•  Submission Period Ends: October 2, 2012

•  Winners Notified: Early November

Judging Criteria

See detailed info on www.health2challenge.org

For More Information

Contact George Thomas

HealthData.gov Chief Architect

george.thomas1@hhs.gov

Or

Hemali at hemali@health2con.com