In Iran and in the US Health Care System,
Citizens’ Access to Computable Data
Frees Everything!

June 22, 2009 · Filed Under general · 13 Comments

Dedication: This post is dedicated to Regina Holliday and to the memory of her husband, Frederick Allen Holliday, who passed away on June 17. Regina’s story has energized many of us to create the Declaration of Health Data Rights we are asking you to endorse on a website or via twitter.

Definition: Data in a computable format means that its contents can be understood and acted upon by a computer software program. Data on the Internet is increasingly in the form of electronic standards, such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), that allows sharing between computer systems and some action or actions to take place without human data entry being necessary. For example, if a patient’s prescribed medications can be automatically assessed to determine if there are potential risky interactions, then that data is computable. Similarly, people upload video from their cell phone to YouTube because these individual video streams are computable.

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