The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is offering £500,000 to software development teams who want to tackle health and social care problems using data.
The cash will be used to fund two ‘Pit Stops’, hack days where devs will start developing mobile and online tools that enable records to be shared more easily between different services.
The data used on the day will not be real, but eventually the tools developed will be deployed as part of the Midata open government data programme.
Jo Swinson, Consumer Affairs Minister, said:
“It is important that consumers have more control over their personal data and the Midata Programme will give them access to the data companies hold about them in a portable, machine-readable format. This will provide more choice for consumers and benefit the economy by stimulating business innovation and competition. That is why, as part of the Government’s Midata Programme, we have supported this important project.”