…The Executive Order requires that, going forward, data generated by the government be made available in open, machine-readable formats, while appropriately safeguarding privacy, confidentiality, and security.

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... months since the Obama administration launched the Big Data Research and Development Initiative, aimed at pooling large collections of data to gain knowledge and insight into everything from national security to the environment to biomedical research
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Hoarding research data is a “serious impediment” to the scientific process, the UK Royal Society says in a report out today, ‘Science as an open enterprise’. It urges researchers — and their funders and institutions — to “shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve”.
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Presidential Commission weighs pros and cons of making sequencing data available to researchers and patients.
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NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)
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“Cloud” Technology Offers Flexibility, Reduced Costs, Ease of Access to Information, But Presents Security, Privacy and Regulatory Concerns, says OlenderFeldman LLP.
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Data stored in personally controlled health records (PCHRs) may hold value for clinicians and public health entities, if patients and their families will share them. We sought to characterize consumer willingness and unwillingness (reticence) to share PCHR data across health topics, and with different stakeholders, to advance understanding of this issue.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-hosting the fifth annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security conference on June 6 and 7, 2012.
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The mysterious Kawasaki disease might cross the Pacific on air currents high in the atmosphere.
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Positing that data analysis on a grand scale can solve the nation’s most critical challenges, the Obama Administration has kicked off a big data initiative with $200 million in commitments from six federal agencies.
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A new study by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) researchers has harnessed data and new analysis tools to address the question of, “whether the genetic risk of the most common medical conditions derive from many rare mutations, each conferring a high degree of risk in different people, or common differences throughout the genome that modestly influence risk” in four common diseases.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has in the last three years undergone a major reboot, remaking itself into a center of expertise on all aspects of "big data" research including genomics, one of the fastest growing areas of scientific study.
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