Health System Data Center Data Sources April 22, 2014December 13, 20190 The Commonwealth Fund's (commonwealthfund.org) Health Systems Data Center provides for comparisons of state and regional data on access to healthcare, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use, and health lives. The site ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their performance for 38 different indicators. It also ranks 306
US Census American FactFinder Data Sources April 9, 2014May 28, 20140 American FactFinder is a tool from the US Census Bureau (link: census.gov) that provides access to data from several censuses and surveys. Data is available for the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas and covers a wide range of topics from income to education to health insurance
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
Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse Data Sources March 26, 2014December 13, 20190 Overview The CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. In the past, researchers analyzing data files were required to perform extensive analysis related to beneficiary matching, deduplication, and merging of the files in