County Health Rankings Data Sources April 8, 2014October 6, 20160 The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (link: rwjf.org) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (link: uwphi.pophealth.wisc.edu). County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of
Dartmouth Health Atlas Data Sources March 31, 2014December 13, 20190 For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated
HealthData.gov Data Sources March 26, 2014April 9, 20140 HealthData.gov is the federal data navigator site for health data. The site is dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of achieving better health outcomes. The site contains data from federal agencies such as CMS, the CDC,
Chronic Conditions Dashboard Data Sources March 26, 2014August 3, 20180 The CMS Chronic Conditions Dashboard presents statistical views of information on the prevalence, utilization and Medicare spending for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions. The Dashboard displays information on a subset of the predefined chronic conditions available in the Chronic Condition Warehouse (CCW) at the national, state, and hospital referral region
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,