Healthcare Administration: Healthcare Statistics & Data

"The Guide to HHS Surveys and Data Resources is a compilation of information about all major data collection systems sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The surveys and data systems outlined below collect a wide range of health and health care information. 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."

Find variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians. Search by region, hospital, or topic.

"HCUP is the Nation’s most comprehensive source of hospital data, including information on in-patient care, ambulatory care, and emergency department visits. HCUP enables researchers, insurers, policymakers and others to study health care delivery and patient outcomes over time, and at the national, regional, State, and community levels. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by AHRQ"

HCCI is a non profit organization that reports on health care utilization and costs in the U.S. health care system. Through research and access to a large health insurance claims database, HCCI seeks to offer answers to critical questions about health care spending and utilization for the entire privately insured health population.

"Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy."

"The Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation are partnering to monitor how well the U.S. healthcare system is performing in terms of quality and cost. The Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker provides clear, up-to-date information on trends, drivers and issues that impact the performance of the system. It also illustrates how the U.S. is performing relative to other countries and how different parts of the system are performing relative to one another."

Historical and Annual health spending in the U.S. by type of good or service delivered (hospital care, physician and clinical services, retail prescription drugs, etc.) and source of funding for those services (private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, out-of-pocket spending, etc.)

"State Health Compare combines estimates previously available separately through the SHADAC Data Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Data Hub. The new, merged tool brings together estimates on a wide range of health-related topics in an effort to allow analysts and policymakers to view state-level data through a broad Culture of Health lens."

The Cost of Care Survey, conducted by CareScout®, is the most comprehensive survey of long term care in the United States and covers over 55,000 long term care providers in 440 regions nationwide.

"The National Compensation Survey produces quarterly indexes measuring change over time in labor costs, Employment Cost Index (ECI), and quarterly data measuring level of average costs per hour worked, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC)...Since the mid-1980’s, the BLS ECI has been used as part of an annual process to update payments to various healthcare providers under Medicare’s Prospective Payment
System (PPS)."

Landing page for quality initiatives and projects.

Tools for measuring health care quality,including quality indicators,and ambulatory clinical performance measures. These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient-centeredness, and efficiency of care. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.

Established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), QualityNet provides healthcare quality improvement news, resources and data reporting tools and applications used by healthcare providers and others. QualityNet is the only CMS-approved website for secure communications and healthcare quality data exchange between: quality improvement organizations (QIOs), hospitals, physician offices, nursing homes, end stage renal disease (ESRD) networks and facilities, and data vendors.

Free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality.

WHO's primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations’ system.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. The Eurostat website provides direct and free of charge online access to all of Eurostat's statistical databases and electronic publications.

"The mission of ERBI is to contribute to, to encourage, and to enhance the development of sound employee benefit programs and sound public policy through objective research and education."

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers robust data sources that may interest you if you're a researcher, clinician, purchaser, policymaker, or consumer

The AHA Chartbook: Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems.

"Easy-to-use, menu-driven search tool that makes the data and information resources of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) more easily available. Find data and information products for specific CMS programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, or on specific health care topics or settings-of-care. Navigator displays search results by data type making it easier to locate specific types of information (e.g., data files, publications, statistical reports, etc.)."

"The mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults."

"This site provides direct access to the official data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that are used on the Medicare.gov Compare Websites and Directories. The goal of the site is to make these CMS data readily available in open, accessible, and machine-readable formats."

"The HRSA Data Warehouse provides maps, data, reports and dashboard to the public. Our data integrates with external sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau, providing information about HRSA’s grants, loan and scholarship programs, health centers and other public health programs and services."

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.

The CDC is the place to start when trying to locate statistics for the United States.

Data on health coverage status by age, gender, and various income levels. Also available are indicators on uninsured rates by age, family work status, federal poverty level, and race/ethnicity.

"The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage."

This site show how the availability of primary care providers affects the access and quality of health services around the country.

"National and sub-national data on the health workforce is a pre-requisite for evidence-informed policy."

"The mission of the AAMC Workforce Studies team is to be the pre-eminent resource for physician workforce projections, data, and research, providing support and value to AAMC and AAMC’s members, and leadership to the health workforce research community." Reports and links and a federated search in PubMed on this important topic.

The Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care provides workforce analysis and application development intended to reveal the following: variations in primary care workforce; primary care provider-to-population ratios that optimize outcomes and align with need; factors that influence health care professionals’ decisions to practice in a primary care setting; maldistribution of physicians after they complete their training; and effectiveness of policies meant to expand and alter the primary care workforce."

The Census Bureau’s American FactFinder provides access to data from several censuses and surveys across topics ranging from income to education. With respect to health, it provides reliable, accessible information on health insurance status used by many other datasets.

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults. Explore regional differences through the Health System Data Center

The CDC is the place to start when trying to locate statistics for the United States.

State Health Facts is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the United States, counties, territories, and other geographies. State Health Facts is comprised of more than 800 health indicators and provides users with the ability to map, rank, trend, and download data.