SXSW was the best of times; it was the best of times. I can’t wrap my head around this past weekend. It was filled with late nights, early mornings, and entirely too long of days. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. My first SXSW was one for the... read more →
Now that the FTC complaint from our CTO, Fred Trotter (as well as Andrea Downing and David Harlow) has been made available to the public, and apparently Congress, it is time to announce a minor change in CareSet’s marketing strategy. CareSet is deleting its Facebook page. ... read more →
At CareSet we know how hard it can be to make sense of the most central open healthcare datasets for pharma applications. As a result, we are offering classes in cooperation with the Datapalooza and PMSA conferences. These massive datasets can be very valuable if you understand their structure, syntax,... read more →
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! POTUS has signed the “Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018” which included the ‘Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act'. What does this mean? Open data, machine-readable formats, by default. With this law, it is now the responsibility for government agencies to... read more →
Today while attending CES to talk about AI in healthcare, I learned that CES is the first health tech conference to offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit for its clinician attendees. This is huge news and is an important step in reconciling the clinician and technical communities. (more…)
The Freedom of Information Act has allowed the public to free copious amounts of health data from the U.S. government in addition to solving countless transparency issues. At CareSet, which releases DocGraph Datasets, we are especially focused on using FOIA to increase healthcare transparency. The DocGraph Journal was founded on... read more →
Six months ago I was facing a quarter-life crisis. I was working for a company who was serving high net worth individuals. Every weeknight felt like Sunday night, “Ugh. I have to go to work in the morning.” Every morning I’d get to work and of course, I enjoyed working... read more →
HHS finally used the "s"-word (silos) talking about themselves. The Context: When anyone seeks to understand what is happening within HHS, a “search” must be conducted. In the era of paper records, this was a literal, physical search. An HHS employee would go to filing cabinets somewhere and find resources.... read more →
As of July 10, the NPPES data file now contains substantially more data. NPPES is a core data file for us at CareSet. NPPES stands for National Plan and Provider Enumeration System and is the dataset that helps us uniquely identify healthcare providers, using "National Provider Identifiers" or NPI numbers. This... read more →
WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) Today CareSet Labs released the DocGraph Hop Teaming Dataset at Datapalooza. This dataset is the most comprehensive open map of the healthcare system in the United States. It is also the largest graph dataset available as open data that uses real names. This release represents the transition of... read more →