Create a centralized, anonymized database that unifies Medicare, Medicaid, VA, TRICARE, Federal Employee Health Benefits, and Indian Health Services data with standard codes and real‑time access. Researchers and policymakers could rapidly evaluate interventions (e.g., food‑dye bans, indoor air quality upgrades) and drug safety, similar to the U.K.’s NHS and France’s SNDS. Strong privacy, audit, and access controls would be built in.
— A federal health data platform would transform evidence‑based policy, accelerate research, and force a national debate over privacy, access, and governance standards.
Aeon Video
2025.11.27
50% relevant
The film puts a human face on a measurable national phenomenon—unpaid caregiving—that better integrated health and social‑care data (as proposed by an HHS data platform) would quantify and track for policy (respite care, caregiver burden, program targeting). The PBS piece supplies the kind of qualitative evidence that complements a centralized dataset used to design caregiver supports.
Josh Morrison, Alastair Fraser Urquhart
2025.10.08
100% relevant
HHS’s July Living Open Data Plan and the authors’ call to consolidate CMS, OPM’s Health Claims Data Warehouse, VA, and TRICARE records into a single, machine‑readable national resource.
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