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JEFFSelects: Business of Health Care
General Resources | Current
Awareness Resources | Legal Resources |
Personal Finance |
Information about Companies and Medical Facilities | Professional
Organizations
Demographics, Statistics and Marketing
- Ambulatory
Health Care Data (CDC)
The two components, The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS),
supply information about the provision and use of ambulatory medical
care services in physician offices, hospital outpatient departments,
and hospital emergency departments in the United States.
- eLab (Vanderbilt
Univ.)
eLab, formerly known as "Project 2000," gives access to many projects,
user surveys, marketing studies/statistics and student papers related
to electronic commerce. This site is sponsored by the Owen Graduate
School of Management, Vanderbilt University.
- Healthcare
Cost and Utilization Project (AHCPQ)
HCUPnet is a family of administrative, longitudinal databases, Web-based
products and software tools developed and maintained by the Agency
for Health Care Policy and Quality (AHCPQ). Users are be given the
opportunity to select specific conditions of interest, to rank order
conditions (show the conditions with the highest length of stay, total
charges, or death rates), or to examine all discharges in general.
Users can select outcomes or measures and also compare types of patients.
- Hospital Compare (DHHS)
Hospital Compare provides data self-reported by over 4,000 hospitals
on 18 common quality measures for heart attack, heart failure and
pneumonia care. In addition, more than 600 hospitals have begun reporting
on surgical infection prevention. An intuitive interface allows users
to specify hospitals, conditions, and measures. Results are represented
by bar charts.
- Managed Care Information
Center (MCIC)
The MCIC is designed for health care executives. It serves as an analysis
center for health care business news from a variety of resources.
Resources include executive newsletters, yearbooks, leading industry
databases and directories, management reports, and client research
studies.
- National
Center for Health Statistics (CDC)
Click on "FaStats" to search alphabetically for selected cumulative
figures on diesease, health statistics for individual states, and
other topics.
- The Panel
Study of Income Dynamics (Univ. of Michigan)
A longitudinal survey of a representative sample of U.S. individuals
and the families in which they reside. An ongoing study since 1968,
by the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan.
- Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment
Council (PH4C)
PH4C is an independent state agency that addresses health care costs
quality, and access. Includes reports and interactive statistical
databases on HMOs, coronary bypasses, county profiles, hip and knee
replacements, and hospital performance.
- Philadelphia
State Data Centers (U.S. Census Bureau)
This site provides links to the State Data Centers of the Philadelphia
Region which is comprised of the states of Delaware, Maryland, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C.
- Philadelphia
Neighborhoods (Neighborhoods Online)
This site is the product of a joint project between LibertyNet and
the Institute for the Study of Civic Values. The links provide census
data for all Philadelphia neighborhoods from Center City Philadelphia
to the Far Northeast.
- State Health Facts - Statehealthfacts.org (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
Provides data on over 500 health, health care, and health policy topics on all 50
states, the District of Columbia and the United States as a whole and is based on a range of public and private sources. Sources include original Kaiser Family Foundation reports, public websites and data, and information purchased from private organizations. Browse
data by topic or search by keyword
- The
Social Statistics Briefing Room (U.S. Whitehouse)
Supplies the most available crime, demographic, education and health
statistics for the United States as a whole.
- United States Census
Bureau (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Provides much of the gross demographic data for this country. Click
on "CenStats" to search for usable statistics about the U.S. population.
This information is from the latest U.S. Census, 1990.
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