With the launch of the health insurance exchanges this week to fulfill the core of Obamacare health insurance provisions, health IT companies are already sizing up the big data ramifications. Social Health Insights pulled together open data made available from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Data Initiative. Its interactive map tracks what various groups are paying for insurance from 30-year-old and 50-year-old singles to single-parent families and couples aged 40 with no kids. It will also include how many in each group purchase insurance, county by county, state by state.
The open data initiative is powered by cloud-based software provider Socrata, which helps organizations make their data transparent.
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It’s the latest open data project Social Health has tackled. Among its other projects are tracking meaningful use compliance and a visual representation of HIPAA data breaches.
About 17 states are running their own insurance exchanges while the federal government runs them for 34 states. This is the first week individuals can enroll in them. Although there have been some glitches, and payers’ call centers have been inundated, the general consensus is that users are keen to sign up or at least take a closer look at the online exchanges for themselves.
