Medicare release and DATA Act signal major events in the age of data transparency
On April 10, 2014 I talked about a data revolution at a World Bank event in Washington, D.C. and listened to the thoughts of others about the subject. In his remarks, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group, emphasized the need for more data about the poor and for improvements in the use of that data for development. Such aspirations for data are common in the nation’s capitol these days, or at any gathering of global leaders around the world. The recent rise of “data-driven everything” in politics, commerce, and media has led observers like The New York Times to call this philosophy of “data-ism”...Read More
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