Note: I had stopped writing posts in 2017. Started again in late-2024, mostly for AI.
Overview: County-level indicators of health Covers 3,141 US counties Approx 200 elements Launched in 2000, in hiatus 2004-2006, but working since then Source link Elements: [freemind]/wp-content/uploads/mindmaps/CHSI.mm[/freemind]
Overview: A national survey about the provision and use of ambulatory medical care services in the United States Findings are based on a sample of visits to non-federal employed office-based physicians Source Link
Overview: SAMHSA was established in 1992 to target substance abuse and mental health services The Office of Applied Studies (OAS) is an Office within SAMHSA- it is the primary source of national data on the prevalence, treatment, and consequences of substance abuse in the United States. Data is collected on drug-related emergency room visits and drug-related deaths; also on the location,...
Overview: Model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for states and all counties in US In July 2005, SAHIE released the first nation-wide set of county-level estimates on uninsured In July 2010, SAHIE released 2007 estimates of health insurance coverage by age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, and income categories at the state-level and by age, sex, and income categories at the county-level...
Overview: Information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury Claimed to be world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system More than 350,000 adults are interviewed each year Tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States annually Operational since 1984 Source Link
MeYou Health is a 'well-being company', in their own words. Their offerings help users engage in a healthy lifestyle, using their social network support. If you are like me, that doesn't really tell you what they do. So I decided to find out more. MeYou Health started in 2009, and is funded by Healthways, Inc. Healthways is a 30-year old, publicly traded health services company based in...
As I've written before, medication adherence is an undeniably critical problem for the healthcare system. Most startups in this area have taken the approach of finding novel ways to remind or monitor the patient about medication, with the assumption that the problem is forgetfulness. Instead, PictureRx offers something that tries to solve a much more fundamental cause of poor adherence- lack of...
Drug safety surveillance (more formally, pharmacovigilence) is a serious and complex issue. Once a drug is FDA-approved and on the market, it needs to be constantly monitored for long/short-term side effects. That process is currently rigid: once observed conclusively, these effects are reported by providers to relevant authorities and disseminated back to all medical community (after some lag...
Asthmapolis is brainchild of David Van Sickle a researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The basic idea is to equip inhalers with a GPS tag to determine when and where was it used by the patient. When such individual (de-identified, of course) medication data is aggregated, it can provide population care insight like environmental triggers and disease impact. Seems like there are three...
VisualDx is healthcare's answer to the visual search trend led by companies like search-cube.com, like.com etc. VisualDx helps identify dental and medical diseases by letting providers search for diagnosis based on how a disease looks and presents itself. Rochester, NY based Logical Images is the company behind VisualDx. Understandably enough, it was founded by two dermatologists from University...