Resources: Links
The Advisory Board - Research of best practices and trends in health care, and general health care news and analysis.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Access to Medical Expenditures Survey, Medicare cost and utilization project, HIV/AIDS cost and stats. Research findings in the areas of primary care, health care costs, markets, elderly, managed care, long-term care and rural health.
American Association of Health Plans - Resource for articles and stats related to health plans and managed care.
American Association of Retired Persons - Offers a list of and links to all state web sites that offer report cards or similar ratings of HMOs.
American Hospital Association - Serves members of all types of hospitals and health care networks. Information on regulation and policy. Especially good met site for health care information.
American Hospital Directory - Provides online, comparative data for most hospitals. Data is built from Medicare claims data.
Association Of American Medical Colleges - Surveys and data for academic medical schools and teaching hospitals.
Berry List of Actuarial Resources - A very extensive list of resources on economic data, health policy information, health care cost trends, and much else.
Bureau of Primary Care - Information on programs supporting access to primary care including FQHCs, Ryan White, National Health Services Corps.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improved the health of the people of the United States.
Center for Performance Sciences - Monthly MD hospital utilization reports, quarterly MD hospital financial reports.
Center for Studying Health System Change - Policy research organization that has publications available on the web related to cost, hospital trends, managed care, insurance coverage, access & quality, and market trends.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formerly HCFA) - Medicare enrollment by state, Medicare fee schedules, Medicaid enrollment, national health care expenditures, and other data.
Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare - Variations in Medicare health care spending and outcomes by geographic region.
FedStats - Federal statistics gateway.
Health Privacy Project - Latest information on HIPAA and other health privacy news.
HorizonHelp - A state-of-the-art, continually updated, web-based information and referral system for health and social services in Howard County.
The Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) – A not-for-profit organization driving the improvement of health by advancing the quality and value of health care.
Kaiser Family Foundation - Reports on public health and health policy issues such as Medicaid, Medicare, uninsured, substance abuse, etc. Links to research and survey results on health care matters, including excellent state-by-state comparisons of managed care and health-care costs.
Managed Care Info - A metasite for managed care statistics.
Maryland Dept of Health & Mental Hygiene - Medicaid & Health Choice information, incidence rates for specific diseases (e.g.,, AIDS, HIV, STDs, and cancer).
Maryland Electronic Capital - Gateway to MD government websites.
Maryland General Assembly - Copies of bills, bill summaries, fiscal notes, hearing schedules, etc.
Maryland Health Care Commission - MHCC meeting minutes, agendas, reports on CON, MD health care expenditures, etc.
Maryland Hospital Association - Hospital news, financial performance reports, payer issues.
Maryland Office of Planning - Maryland reference information, household income, unemployment statistics.
Maryland State Data Center - Census & other data, historical trends, forecasts for state, six planning regions and counties.
Mathematica Policy Research Inc. - Analysis of public health and health policy issues, such as Medicare, Medicaid, Healthy Start, Welfare, etc.
MedicineNet.com – Medical reference website, including medical terminology and definitions.
National Business Coalition on Health - Business coalition designed to improve purchasing power for employers. Contains a link to various health care report card projects.
National Center for Health Statistics - Vital health statistics by state.
National Committee for Quality Assurance - NCQA's Health Plan Report Card has results on hundreds of health plans that care for commercially insured individuals and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
National Institutes of Health – One of the world’s foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States. The NIH, comprising 27 separate Institutes and Centers, is one of the eight health agencies of the Public Health Service which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Office of the Asst Secretary for Planning and Evaluation - Information on the issues of health policy, disability, aging, long-term care, human services, science, and data policy.
Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) - Information about CMS (HCFA) data such as how to access and use, including field definitions for CMS files.
Solucient - Demographic data, inpatient & outpatient estimates, physician supply data.
U.S. Census Bureau - Census data by state, household income, population by race, ethnicity.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Contains information on the Community Health Status Indicator Project. Gives demographic and health status data by county, for all of US.
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research - Publishes research on national, state and local health policy issues, including the financial and societal effects of the uninsured, single-parenthood and asthma.
