Health Informatics Research Guide: Data

Research findings, data and statistical tools, plus reports and publications.

Registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants.

Source of open data and datasets from US federal, state, and local government.

Source of health data from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Nation's principal health statistics agency.

Source to data and statistics on US health including the specific sources listed below.

Data on the utilization and provision of ambulatory care services in hospital emergency and outpatient departments.

Data collected on hospitals, their patients, and their care to inform about delivery of health care and service use, trends affecting hospitals and health care, and to benchmark hospitals against the national data.

Data on a broad range of health topics pertaining to the US population.

Data from surveys of residential care communities and adult day services centers; plus administrative data on home health agencies, nursing homes and hospices.

Data to vital events- births, deaths, marriages, and divorces.

Downloadable data sets, documentation, and questionnaires from NCHS surveys and data collection systems.

CDC’s collection of interactive applications.

Popular tools and topics.