A hackathon and workshop organized by Open Knowledge Ireland with support from the Irish Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The workshop takes advantage of the Irish Hospital Wait Time data that has recently been published in machine readable format for the very first time.

1. Making Public Data Relevant
Health Data Ireland - Hospital Waiting Lists
Citizen Workshop
25th March 2017
All Welcome
Twitter hashtags: + #HealthDataIRL + #opendataIRL + #HospitalWaitingLists
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by Open Knowledge Ireland
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2. What is this?
This is the 1st in a series of 4 workshops designed to make open (read public) data useful the Irish
public. In December 2016 following a number of months of lobbying by our team the Department of
Public Expenditure & Reform (in charge of the Open Data Policy for Ireland) together with the NTPF for
the first time published Hospital Waiting List data on data.gov.ie in machine readable format.
Machine Readable = we can now use this data to explore how it may be useful for the general public
and how it may help improve the lives of all citizens in Ireland.
Objective: The overall objective of the 4 workshops over the course of the year is to engage the wider
public and enable collaboration between those who have data, those who know how to put this data into
use, those who can help to put data in context and the end user to develop the use case scenarios.
1. Workshop 1: 25th March 2017 - Identify potential use cases, initial recommendations on data
quality, and hospital waiting times best practice research
2. Workshop 2: May - ‘Short list’ use case ideas, requirements gathering, draft concepts,
wireframes, data cleansing & visualisation option selection, begin developing proof of concepts
3. Workshop 3: June - Data Feeds, Hosting options, design & functionality review & challenge,
continue to build/develop
4. Workshop 4: September - Continue to build/develop proof of concepts & data visualisations,
refine designs, document methodologies and collate final recommendations for furthering
usability of hospital waiting list and other public/open data so it becomes useful for the wider
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#HealthDataIRL
#opendataIRL
#HospitalWaitingLists
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3. Who Should Attend?
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#HealthDataIRL
#opendataIRL
#HospitalWaitingLists
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@OKFirl
The workshop is hosted for citizens by citizens - everyone with an interest in doing
something for the greater good of the Irish people and exploring how we can use
public data on hospital waiting lists is welcome.
Attendees will have support from and access to a range of subject matter experts
and ‘end users’ - i.e. patients and citizens.
We will use a proven concept of diverse group work where potential end users of
hospitals (i.e. patients and other citizens) will partner with professionals in the
fields of technology, digital, user experience, analytics, etc. to develop innovative
ideas and use case scenarios for improving the performance of the current hospital
wait times.

4. What you need to attend
Your laptop
Your story
Your skill
→ Let us worry about the rest
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#HealthDataIRL
#opendataIRL
#HospitalWaitingLists
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@OKFirl

5. One Day Workshop Agenda
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#opendataIRL
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9.30am -
10.45am
Arrival, Opening & Formation of working groups around themes
11am -
12.15pm
● Working groups made up of patients, citizens and diverse groups of subject matter experts begin
research, discussion and development of draft approach to chosen theme / problematic
● Groups have access to public data experts, patients and owners of public data to explore problems
that need/can be solved using public data
12.15pm -
12.45pm
Groups share approach they have discussed and can get input from wider audience
12.45pm -
1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm -
3pm
Work continues in working groups + Coffee Break
3.30pm -
5.30pm
Strategy session with all working groups (their insights from research, interviews and discussions) - Goal is
to develop potential use case scenarios for the now public data on hospital waiting lists and a set of
recommendations to increase usability of hospital waiting list data.
6pm Agree next steps for follow-up workshops & social get together to celebrate a day spent working for the
greater good

6. What do we want to achieve?
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#HealthDataIRL
#opendataIRL
#HospitalWaitingLists
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1. Ensure the newly published data on hospital wait times continues to be
published - we think this can be achieved by creating scenarios where citizens
will utilise this data on a daily basis - incentivising the regular publishing of this
data.
2. Create an accountability mechanism which enables citizens to monitor
performance on hospital wait times.
3. Creating useful tools for the citizen using public data such as hospital waiting
lists: e.g. an app or web tool that let’s you see which hospital has got the
longest wait times so you can select where you might want to get your
treatment
4. Begin to create useful tools and scenarios for how public data can be used to
improve the lives of all citizens to encourage public bodies and those that hold
data to continue publishing high value data sets relevant to the public.

7. What is this?
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Twitter hashtags:
#HealthDataIRL
#opendataIRL
#HospitalWaitingLists
Follow and contact:
@OKFirl
Workshop 1
Identify options
& opportunities
to use HWL
Data (e.g. web
apps and data
visualisations)
Workshop 2
Short list ideas &
proof of concepts.
Begin
requirements
gathering &
design.
Workshop 3
Continue
design & build
as well as data
match & merge
and
visualisation
Workshop 4
Finalise designs,
data visualisations,
proof of concepts
and
recommendations
for making HWL
data useful
Ongoing liaison with data owners (DPER, HSE, NTPF, etc.), and those that can put this data to
use to benefit the Irish public.
Inputs:
Patient stories and experiences, public hospital waiting list data, subject matter experts
and enthusiasm + data owners (HSE, NTPF, Dept. of Public Expenditure & Reform).
Tickets
Outputs:
Proof of concepts, tools, products, and data visualisations that showcase the value of making Hospital
Wait Time data publicly available to all citizens. Outputs of the workshop will be published and utilised
to work with public bodies to encourage the building of tools and continued publishing of high value
data sets that can improve the lives of all people.

8. A Citizen Centred Approach
Our experience of progressing the number of public data sets available in Ireland from
zero to 4,500 datasets by working with the government and public services and our
history of providing advisory services at the forefront of the Open Data agenda in Ireland
and beyond reflects that we’re hugely invested in this space.
Our approach is to bring bright, committed talent together in order to use data that has
been published (e.g. Hospital Waiting List Data) to create tools that are inherently useful
to the citizen,i.e. the end user. There is a need to develop proof of concepts and use
case scenarios in order to drive early adoption of publicly available data in Ireland and
we are enabling the public bodies and services that own public data to do so.
At the same time our purpose is to positively impacting on the life of Irish citizens by
addressing the lack of impact Open Data has had on the social domain in Ireland to date.
In other words it is time to put public data that is being collected on behalf of the public
into use so that the public can benefit from it and we are doing just that by engaging the
wider public community in that process.
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Twitter hashtags:
#HealthDataIRL
#opendataIRL
#HospitalWaitingLists
Follow and contact:
@OKFirl

9. We hope to see you there!
(Tickets)
Any Questions?
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Twitter hashtags:
#HealthDataIRL
#opendataIRL
#HospitalWaitingLists
Follow and contact:
@OKFirl
Email: flora.fleischer@openknowledge.ie
Twitter: @OKFirl
Phone: Flora - 0851587423