Data Sets

Lets start with some Data Sets Part 1: source from Cprime studios

The Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) was an initiative of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the predecessor of today’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

(UACDS) regulates the area of ambulatory care. The set includes reasons for the encounter, living arrangements, and marital status. The UACDS is a recommended set, not a mandatory one.

The Minimum Data Set for long term care (MDS) was published by the Department of Health & Human Services in 2013 and modified in 2016.

Data elements for emergency department systems (DEEDS) is an initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). DEEDS is a data set used to support the uniform collection of data at hospital-based emergency departments

The Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) is a standardized data set designed to facilitate the rigorous and systematic measurement of patient home health care outcomes to assess the quality of home health services.

The Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a set of standard performance measures designed to provide health care purchasers and consumers with the information they need to compare the performance of managed health care plans.

10 BEST HEALTHCARE DATASETS FOR DATA MINING

The Healthdata.gov site incorporates 125 years of US healthcare data. The data include claim-level Medicare data, epidemiology, and population statistics. Here you can find not only the data sets provided by agencies across the Federal Government but also the tools and applications for data handling and processing data.

World Health Organization provides data and analyses on global health priorities, including health and disease statistics. Each page is dedicated to a specific topic and provides information on global situations and trend highlights. The information includes core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the topic.

data.gov includes over 197,747 data sets which, among others, include health, public safety, and science & research data sets that come from across the Federal Government. The source provides “data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations” for the purposes of improving the health and lives of all Americans.

The Human Mortality Database (HMD) provides detailed mortality and population data for about 40 countries. The database is accessible for researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity.

Data and Tools of the National Center for Health Statistics include public-use data files and documentation, and restricted data. The site also provides data tools and data analysis aids, as well as data visualization for the general public, survey participants, researchers, and students.

openFDA, launched by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows developers to access public FDA data through open APIs, provides raw data downloads, and offers documentation and examples. The available dataset includes reports on the adverse events of drugs, such as side effects, product use errors, product quality problems, and therapeutic failures. You can also find data on drug product labeling.

The Big Cities Health Inventory Data Platform by the Big Cities Health Coalition is an open data platform that allows users to access and analyze health data from 26 cities, for 34 health indicators, and across six demographic indicators. The latest version of the platform features over 17,000 data points across 28 large cities, allowing users to examine a number of pressing health issues impacting urban communities across the country.

Medicare.gov offers you a wealth of databases available to download. The available databases include 2018 Drug and Health Plan Data, 2018 Medigap Data, Hospital Compare and much more.

US Census Bureau is another leading source of quality data about people, business and the economy of the USA. It provides demographic data at the state, city, and even zip code level.

National Cancer Institute provides data sets on cancer incidence segmented by age, race, gender, year, and other factors. Additional datasets include Standard Population Data, U.S. Mortality Data, and U.S. Population Data. The platform also provides statistical software.

Source: https://cprimestudios.com/blog/10-best-healthcare-data-sets-examples