United States of America

Cool Projects

US Digital Service

US Digital Service (USDS) is a part of the Executive Branch (President) which provides information technology consultation services for the federal government.

See: * US Digital Services Playbook * 18F

US Digital Services Playbook

  1. Understand what people need
  2. Address the whole experience, from start to finish
  3. Make it simple and intuitive
  4. Build the service using agile and iterative practices
  5. Structure budgets and contracts to support delivery
  6. Assign one leader and hold that person accountable
  7. Bring in experienced teams
  8. Choose a modern technology stack
  9. Deploy in a flexible hosting environment
  10. Automate testing and deployments
  11. Manage security and privacy through reusable processes
  12. Use data to drive decisions
  13. Default to open

See: U.S. Digital Services Playbook

Data

US Digital Registry

U.S. Digital Registry is a database of official US federal government social media accounts.

USAspending.gov

USAspending.gov is the publicly accessible, searchable website mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to give the American public access to information on how their tax dollars are spent.

DICE

Disconnected Interactive Content Explorer (DICE) is an app for iOS, Android, and Windows that allows users to load interactive content generated in HTML, CSS, and Javascript to a mobile device so the device can display interactive content without a network connection.

Health

Precision Medicine Initiative

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-precision-medicine-initiative

  • More and better treatments for cancer
  • Creation of a voluntary national research cohort
  • Commitment to protecting privacy
  • Regulatory modernization
  • Public-private partnerships
  • #precisionmedicine

Personal Health Agenda

Goals
Objectives
  • Link available resources together with common identifiers and vocabulary [“URIs”, “Linked Data”, “Semantic Web”, “RDF”, “RDFa”]
  • Add RDFa tags to existing HTML templates [“Linked Data”, “MedicalEntity”]
  • Lookup relevant datasets
  • Lookup relevant datasets across languages and coding systems
  • Encourage sharing of non-PHI data
  • Encourage sharing of non-PHI data with units
  • Lookup and automatedly analyze relevant datasets (before reading an abstract or a conclusion) with a number of models and random seeds [“blind statistical analysis”, “masked statistical analysis”]
  • Develop an RDFS vocabulary for describing study controls and protocols with URIs [“Study Protocol”]
  • Develop RDFS vocabulary predicates for linking between similar and concurring / discordant reproductions of studies [“Reproducibility”, “Repeatability”]
    • [ ]
  • Develop a platform for collaborative systematic review
    • Linked Data (RDF)
    • OpenAnnotation
    • Structured Reviews
    • #LinkedReproducibility

Healthcare.gov (HHS CMMS)

  • [ ] TODO: create RDFa vocabulary for health plans
  • [ ] TODO: add RDFa to individual plan pages
  • [ ] TODO: search engine to index RDFa vocabulary
  • [ ] TODO: encourage carriers to add RDFa to describe their servcies

GNUHealth

GNU Health is a Free Health and Hospital Information System
  • Electronic Health Record
  • Hospital Information System
  • Health Information System

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  • Open Source
  • Written in Python
  • PostgreSQL Database
  • Desktop Client: Windows / OSX / Linux (GTK)
  • Android Client
  • Web Interface

Science & Technology

OpenStack

OpenStack is an Open Source cloud infrastructure platform started as a public-private partnership between NASA and Rackspace.