DocGraph Database Data Sources March 26, 2014February 4, 20150 The DocGraph Edge data set contains very detailed information on referral patterns between CMS healthcare providers. The data can be used to understand referral patterns within any community in the United States. The data sets are very large and are structured for use in network analysis. Providers are identified by
Health Data All-Stars Data Sources March 26, 2014May 13, 20140 Health Data All-Stars is a directory of 50 prominent resources for health data at the federal, state and local levels housed on the Health Data Consortium’s website. To compile the directory, they spoke with leading health researchers, government officials, entrepreneurs, advocates and others to identify the health data resources that
CMS Geographic Variation Public Use File Data Sources March 25, 2014February 11, 20150 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed data that enables researchers and policymakers to evaluate geographic variation in the utilization and quality of health care services for the Medicare fee-for-service population. They have aggregated this data into a Geographic Variation Public Use File that has demographic,