Fred Trotter

Fred Trotter

Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Fred Trotter is a Healthcare Data Journalist and author, who is well regarded as an…

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Experience

  • CareSet Systems Graphic

    CareSet Systems

    Houston TX

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    Toronto, Canada Area

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    Houston, Texas Area

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    Phoenix, Arizona Area

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Education

  • Trinity University Graphic

    Trinity University

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    The philosophy department taught me that to think clearly, I had to write clearly. Then it taught me to write.

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    I focused on Artificial Intelligence, specifically Neural Networks and Hive intelligence simulations.

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    Activities and Societies: Minored in Business Administration, Cognitive Science and Management Information Systems.

    The psychology department at Trinity was focused on preparing students for graduate programs, including a firm grounding in statistics. This is the first time I was exposed to differentiating between divergent clinical ontologies.

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • Covid Spurs Families to Shun Nursing Homes, a Shift That Appears Long Lasting

    The Wall Street Journal

    Anna Wilde Mathews and Tom McGinty were the authors of the article, but CareSet was the author of the underlying dataset. Here, we leveraged Medicare data analyzed at CareSet to enable the WSJ to asses COVID's impact on Nursing Homes.

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  • The COVID Community Profile Report FAQ

    CareSet

    The “Community Profile Report” is made up of two components: a PDF and an Excel spreadsheet. Both are snapshots of how COVID is affecting our states and communities.This is a critical open data release because these reports and the data within them are aggregated and prepared by our federal government to guide the national response.

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  • Facility COVID PUF Community FAQ

    CareSet

    This document answers frequently asked questions about the COVID-19 facility-level capacity data, initially released the week of Dec 7th, 2020. This FAQ was developed in collaboration with a group of data journalists, data scientists, and healthcare system researchers who have reviewed the data.

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  • SicGRL FTC compliant

    Light Collective

    The FTC compliant filed by the patient community. Here is the politico summary of the compliant:
    https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2019/02/patients-say-facebooks-group-feature-exposes-health-information-1180717

    And here is the Congressional response:
    https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/Facebook.2.19.19.%20Letter%20to%20FB%20re%20health%20closed%20groups.CPC_.pdf

    Other authors
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  • Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School

    Academic Medicine

    I contributed some technical tooling to a project to measure the contributions of medical students editing clinical topics on medical wikipedia.

    Other authors
    See publication

  • Connecting the docs: Using online tools to trace referrals

    Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) Covering Health

    Interviewed by AHCJ journalists on the use DocGraph data as a performance measure for healthcare systems.

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  • Hacking Healthcare

    O'Reilly Media

    The most popular introduction to Healthcare data, Health IT and Meaningful Use (at least according to Amazon search results)

    Find the citations for Hacking Healthcare here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1844644038184099517&as_sdt=5,39&sciodt=0,39&hl=en

    Other authors
    • David Uhlman
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Projects

  • Zermelo

    - Present

    A Laravel-based data reporting and browsing engine with a focus on SQL-based graph analysis using the D3 force-directed data display.

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  • DURC is reverse CRUD

    A Laravel compatible set of utilities that automatically create web interfaces for editing data, based on the contents of a database with appropriately named columns and/or foreign keys.

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  • Mission to Mars Health Hackathon

    We are working with Johnson Space Center to host an ambitious code-a-thon event where designers, programmers, and entrepreneurs can focus on issues affecting astronauts in space, and the possibility of transnational development from space to earth. The event will bring together top scientists from NASA, engineers from major firms around the Houston area, with area talent. Please join us by registering on the site.

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Honors & Awards

  • Data Liberator Award

    Health Datapalooza (Academy Health)

    Today AcademyHealth, a national non-profit organization that advances the use of health systems research in evidence-based policy and practice, announced health care data journalist and author Fred Trotter as the winner of this year's Health Data Liberator award. The award recognizes his efforts to bring health data into the open to empower patients and fuel the work of healthcare problem-solvers.

  • Testified on the definition of the Meaningful Use of EHR systems

    NCVHS

    I was invited to testify on how ONC should define meaningful use, the standard for Electronic Health Records. I represented the Open Source EHR community.

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