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,
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,