This is a presentation given for a HealthData.gov Developer Challenge; see http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/health-data-platform-metadata-challenge/ and/or http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/health-data-platform-simple-sign-on-challenge/ (both links contain the same embedded video and deck)

1. Developer Challenges
Webinar Presentation
Thursday, July 19

2. On today’s call:
Adam Wong Hemali Thakkar George
Thomas
Management and Manager, Developer
Program Analyst Chief Architect
Challenge
ONC
Health 2.0 HealthData.gov

3. Agenda for Today’s Meeting
ONC and the Investing in Innovation (i2)
Program
AnIntroduction to the (first two of seven)
HealthData.gov Domain and Platform
Challenges
Q&A About the Challenges

4. ONC and i2

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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.

10. 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!)

11. Cross Domain Standards
• OGC
– http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geosparql
• ‘defacto’
– http://qudt.org/ (from NASA)
• OMG
– http://www.omg.org/spec/BMM/

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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/Implementatio
ns

15. 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

16. Timeline for both Challenges
• Submission Period Ends: October
2, 2012
• Winners Notified: Early November

17. Judging Criteria
See detailed info on
www.health2challenge.org

18. For More Information
Contact George Thomas
HealthData.gov Chief Architect
george.thomas1@hhs.gov
Or
Hemali at hemali@health2con.com