Administrative data about Medicare and Medicaid provider institutions and healthcare spending; statistical data about persons covered these programs and their use of healthcare services.
This U.S. General Services Administration's interactive tool offers open source government data and resources on a variety of topics for research and data visualization.
From the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, this tool "provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2013."
The Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) is a CMS contractor that provides free assistance to academic, government and non-profit researchers interested in using Medicare and/or Medicaid data for their research.
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides online data supporting epidemiologic research. Claims to be valuable in public health research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation, and resource allocation.
Knowledge translation (KT) refers to strategies that move research into practice by improving the relevance, reporting, accessibility, interpretation, and application of research results. The KTDRR Center focuses on Knowledge Translation activities to support researchers in the disability and rehabilitation field
From site: The Guide is intended for policymakers, administrators, researchers, and the public as a reference document on data and statistical resources within HHS. This includes health status and behaviors; health care access; resources, utilization and expenditures; insurance coverage and financing; functional status as well as social determinants of health and quality of care.
HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
Through the United States Census Bureau; "Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) are produced for school districts, counties, and states. The main objective of this program is to provide updated estimates of income and poverty statistics for the administration of federal programs and the allocation of federal funds to local jurisdictions"
The Centers for Disease Control publishes the MMWR Weekly, Recommendations and Reports, Surveillance Summaries, Supplements, Summary of Notifiable Diseases, and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Full-text is available. The data in the weekly MMWR are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments.
