It is the policy of many governments to support transparency with the release of Open Data. But few understand how important it is that this Open Data be released in machine-readable openly available formats. I have already written a lengthly blog post about how most of the time, the CSV standard is the right data […]
Category: Open Data
NDC search improves again
As I mentioned recently, the NDC search page improved to include more data and CSV downloads. Now it is using tabular results, instead of accordion method. I love the improvement. the old results look like this (click to make the picture clear) new results look like this (click to make the picture clear) Great […]
Better NDC downloads from the FDA
Recently, the FDA Division of Drug Information, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research dramatically improved how their NDC search tool data downloads work in response to some complaints they received from… someone. Most notably they: Added the NDC Package Code (the NDC-10 code with the dashes) to each row as a distinct field. This is the only field […]
Open Data Frustrations
First, let me say that I applaud and salute anyone who releases open data about anything as relevant as healthcare data. It is a tough and thankless slog to properly build, format and document open data files. Really, if you work on this please know that I appreciate you. I value your time and your […]
Hacking on the Wikipedia APIs for Health Tech
Recently I wrote about my work hacking on the PubMed API. Which I hope is helpful to people. Now I will cover some of the revelations I have had working with DocGraph on the Wikipedia APIs. This article will presume some knowledge of the basic structure of open medical data sets, but we have recently […]