Dive Brief:
- The U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to bring together de-identified data from CMS, the FDA and the National Health Service, to be shared on a cloud-based research platform.
- The cloud, the MedRed BT Health Cloud, will be one of the world's largest open health data repositories, according to an announcement describing the program.
- The cloud already has data from England, Scotland and Wales, including physician encounters, acute care interventions, pharmacy history and health outcomes data.
Dive Insight:
This is a very interesting project, part of the Obama administration's Big Data Research and Development initiative.If the researchers succeed at bringing together all of the data outlined in the announcement, it will indeed be a resource of global importance. This is an effort worth watching closely, with the potential to offer new insights in population health and pathways to products that can help people around the world.