Being Smarter About Open Data

Making data available to patients and, on an anonymized

basis to researchers has huge potential for: ● Holding healthcare organizations and providers accountable for treatment

outcomes; ● Enabling patients make informed choices from among the healthcare

options available to them;

● Improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of delivering healthcare;

● Improving treatment outcomes; ● Educating patients and their families and make healthcare institutions

more responsive;

● Fuelling new healthcare companies and innovation.

A Conceptual

Framework to Guide

Assessment

Inputs: What open data set was used?

Users: Who is using the data? What is their

relationship to the NHS?

III.4. Activities: How is data used?

III.4. Activities: How is data used?

Activities: How is the data used?

Outputs: What was the value produced by

the open data initiative (activity)?

Indicators: To what end?

Methodologies to Measure Impact

Impact: To add what value to the NHS as a

whole?

Potential Challenges and Barriers