Save the Dates! National Health Code-A-Thon Calendar

The Department of Health and Human Services is interested in the development of innovative applications and solving critical social and health problems, and to help you optimize the opportunity you have to solve some of the most critical health issues this country faces we have developed HealthData.gov.  Healthdata.gov is populated with resources for developers, entrepreneurs and people who just want to play around with health data. On HealthData.gov there are over 300 datasets listed  which include everything from the FDA adverse events reporting database to information on over 120,000 clinical trials to Head Start locations nationwide to the Health Indicators Warehouse.

In addition to the robust amount general health data, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has national compare data available, ranging from hospital compare, to nursing compare to dialysis compare data, all of which can be found on Healthdata.gov and on Data.Medicare.gov.  To help you navigate Healthdata.gov and the available datasets, we have a slide deck that is our health data starter kit that will take you through an introduction of some of the datasets we have available.