ProPublica Prescriber Checkup Data Sources July 3, 20140 ProPublica Prescriber Checkup provides prescribing data from Medicare's prescription drug benefit, known as Part D. The data for 2011 includes nearly 1.2 billion prescriptions by 1.6 million doctors, nurses, and other providers. The database lists about 364,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at
State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) Data Sources July 2, 2014July 2, 20140 The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) provides a web-based table generator that allows the user to create customized tables and graphs of health insurance coverage and factors associated with access to care. The user can create maps, bar charts, trends, and tables. These data visualization tools
RWJF DataHub Data Sources June 25, 2014July 2, 20140 The RWJF DataHub tracks state-level data and allows users to customize and visualize facts and figures on key health and health care topics. The design of the site allows users to simply to pick a category, indicator and location to view data. The National DataHub has a map and ranking
Why Not The Best Data Sources April 29, 2014April 29, 20140 Why Not The Best was created and is maintained by The Commonwealth Fund (link: commonwealthfund.org), a private foundation working toward a high performance health system. It is a free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality. It enables organizations to compare
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,