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Open Data for Healthcare Jaijit Bhattacharya/ August 08, 2013



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What do machines provide ?

•Allows us to leverage our strength

• It is a tool to transform the force that we can apply



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What did next generation of machines do ?

•Harness the muscle power of more than one animal or more than one person

Source of picture: http://simplymarvelous.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/amish-2.jpg



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What did the machines do next ?

Source of pictyute: www.goodmansjourney.com/blog/index.php?loc_id=61

http://www.goodmansjourney.com/blog/index.php?loc_id=61

http://www.goodmansjourney.com/blog/index.php?loc_id=61



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So how do you harness multiple brain power ?

Source of picture: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/brain-1.jpg



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Source of picture: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/brain-1.jpg

How do we make

them collaborate ?

What machine do we

use to harness them ?



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http://www.sixthman.net/blog/2009/05/

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/brain-1.jpg

How do we create the

SuperBrain ?





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Technology Exists

• Web 2.0 − Blogs

− Wikis

− Chats

− Forums

• Public High Performance Computing

• Cloud

• Digital Libraries

• Open Formats



Collaborative Innovation Framework

Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow access to knowledge

Open Source

Access to Data and Code

(Public access to data and code) Open Standards

Ability to Collaborate

(Royalty Free Standards)

Open Content

Access to Knowledge

(Creative Commons, Wikipedia)



Principles of Massively Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Collaboration

Community

Shared ownership of knowledge



Paradigm Shift in Knowledge

Creation Intellectual “Property”

Control, restrict

Monopoly of an individual/company

No right to modify, limited rights to use

Industrial age legacy, per copy licensing

Collaborative Knowledge

Share, Collaborate

Community owned, accessible to all

Modifications encouraged, more brain power harnessed

Freely distributable



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Collaborative research created Technological

Foundation of the Industrial Revolution

• Steam Engine

•Blast Furnaces



Increase in efficiency of steam engine during

and after the lapse of the patent

Further advances to steam engine did not involve patents.

Collaborative model in which all advances were published in a collectively maintained journal called the “Lean’s Engine Reporter”.

This was the period that saw the fastest growth of engine efficiency.



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Central Dashboard with Data Analytics

First 60 days disease analysis of patients

visiting eHC Chausala Data Analytics based on uploaded patient

data in centralized EMR



Pilot Project Partners



Open access to public funded

research

Open access to data

Collaborative usage of non-

digitized equipment and

information

Open Opportunities

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Policies



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O goddess Saraswati,

Your treasure of knowledge,

is miraculous in nature,

The more we share it,

the more it grows;

The more we hoard it,

The more it declines!

From the Vedanta



Thank you