The Health Datapalooza conference is a unique annual event. As the playful name suggests, it’s a somewhat countercultural happening, a place for freewheeling and respectfully critical discussion among health data experts. The conference was launched in 2010 by Todd Park, a ground-breaking technologist who was CTO of HHS at the time and was later promoted to be CTO of the United States.  

Lucia Savage, Chair of the AcademyHealth Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy and Chief Privacy and Regulatory Officer at Omada Health, explains how, in contrast to most health care conferences, the Datapalooza is “not glitzy” and “not about selling stuff,” but offers “accessible dialog” among policy makers, programmers, patients, and others.  

Learn more about Health Datapalooza: https://academyhealth.org/events/site/2023-health-datapalooza 

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