Since its inception in 2010, Health Datapalooza has become the gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge from data and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and practice.
[1] The Obama administration invited 45 people to gather to consider 30 data sets and develop some prototype application using them within 30 days.
[2] In giving the keynote address at the fourth Datapalooza, Jonathan S. Bush of athenahealth said "Data scientist may be the sexiest career in the 21st-century!
[4] A topic of discussion was the Republican Party's criticism of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's authority to create a health IT safety center.
[5] Current Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden gave a keynote address and discussed his family's struggles with cancer.