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Validity, Utility and Cost of Clinical Tests

Medical tests are characterized by validity, utility and cost: Validity is the probability that the test results are correct. Utility is the usefulness of having correct results (e.g. how much life ...
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Protected health information in different countries

I'm looking for a dataset that would gather the different categories of protected health information (PHIs) in different countries. I am only interested in electronic health records. For example, in ...
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Can I aggregate and reformat publicly available data for teaching?

I work and teach in a field where public data is scarce (anatomical MRI processing). I planned to organize a few practical works for students this semester. I had a pretty hard time gathering publicly ...
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Are there any (openly) available data sets for medical coding examples?

Are there any data sets of medical coding examples available online? Eg. Doctor's notes and resulting (correct/accepted) procedure and diagnosis codes for individual encounters or samples of ...
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Publicly available dataset of physician notes

I am looking for a publicly available data set of physician notes that describe medical reasoning, ideally freetext indexed by the level of training of the author. MIMIC-III has physiologic data, ...
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Allergy dataset with symptoms and allergens

I'm looking for an allergy data-set which contains the allergy symptoms shown by a patient and the allergen caused that allergy.
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Overview on hospitals and medical services - in America, Asia, Africa and Europe

I am looking for a overview on hospitals and medical services provided by the public (and also by the private) healthcare sector in Europe, Asia America and Australia. public hospitals private ...
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Existence of a diseases/symptoms database

For a personal project, I am looking for a database containing (possibly) every disease with its associated possible symptoms. Do you know if such a database is available somewhere?
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What API can I use to retrieve HealthCare Data?

I am looking for an API which provides the healthcare data of a patient. What I am trying to do is: User logs in to our website. Then the user want to get the CDA data from his/her healthcare ...
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Is there an API for drug approval packages from the FDA?

I am building an application where we'd like to reuse information from drug approval packages (Example). The FDA API does not have a query interface for drug approval packages. Is there an ...
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Database of powered mobility device (wheelchairs, etc) activity logs?

I would like to know if there exists a publicly accessible collection of activity logs of powered mobility device usage by elderly/disabled individuals. Specific contents I'm after are user input ...
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Dataset for a Healthcare RecSys

i want dataset that contains ratings and/or reviews of doctors/Physicians by their patients, both doctors and patients must be identified by unique ID.. Is there any public dataset i can use for my ...
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Doctors and Insurance Networks

Where can I find a database of doctors and accepted insurances? The closest I've gotten is https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/api/ but while that includes what looks like insurers under the "identifiers" ...
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High frequency public health or health care data

What public data are out there that contain health or health care events or outcomes (mortality, encounters with health care providers, etc.) and are available at a daily, weekly, or monthly frequency ...
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Availability of location-based sleep datasets?

I am interested in spatial patterns of sleep quality (e.g. differences between neighborhoods in the same city, or even streets). Is there any interesting sleep dataset that contains the location? I am ...
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Where can I find publicly available data on aggregate enrollment in health insurance *before* Medicare?

I'm looking for data on the number/share of people who had private health insurance by age and region (county, for example) before the introduction of Medicare in the United States? As in, before 1965?...
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Bacterial infectious diseases dataset

Does anyone know of a dataset relating: bacteria (not viruses or fungi) infectiousness symptoms ...or something of the sort? I'm looking to classify infectiousness (ie. infectious/not infectious) ...
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Dataset for human body temperature, heart rate and illness

For testing my healthcare project I'm looking for a data set in which the following attributes are present: gender temperature heart-rate illness 1 100 70 high temperature (...
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Drug coverage by health insurance

I'm looking for a data set containing the copayment of all drugs for the various health insurance operators in the United States.
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is there an open API for healthcare's medicaid / CHIP eligibility?

I'd like to make a healthcare website that would help customers find their healthcare plans easily. How can I check if the user is eligible for medicaid, or CHIP or medicare? I know how to get the ...
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Risks per medical treatment

I am looking for a data set on risks per medical treatment as many following fields as possible: list of risk factors per medical treatment some quantification of the risk (e.g., an autologous blood ...
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Physionet.org - Sepsis Data Files?

I am searching for "Pre" and "Post" Physiological Data Files from Patients that have Sepsis. They can be in just about any format such as Excel, CSV, etc. but contain a Time Stamp, Heart Rate, BP(s), ...
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Medical text corpus

This should be a simple question to many in the area, but for the life of me I can't find a solution by myself. I need a corpus of medical text for the purposes of training a spell checker which will ...
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RCDC for the fiscal years prior to 2011

How/where do I access estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC) for the fiscal years prior to 2011?
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Where can I find Nefazadone CBASP dataset?

I am searching for data that was collected as part of the job described in the New England Journal of Medicine article A Comparison of Nefazodone, the Cognitive Behavioral-Analysis System of ...
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Domestic accidents due to exploding plates and bowls

I am looking for a dataset that lists domestic accidents due to plates and bowls exploding due to heat or other factors, put aside direct human/animal mistake (e.g. we ignore cases where a human ...
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Health forum data sets

I am looking for data sets that contain health-related forum posts. Ideally, with as much structured information as possible (post, post timestamp, poster ID, history of edits, etc.). I know I can ...
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Looking for a blood glucose data set for predictive algorithm

Student in data analysis and diabetes, I'm looking for a data set that contains the features below to test some algorithm of prediction (random forest). Where can I get such a data set, please? The ...
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Frequent Micro health care data

I need a dataset with some health outcome (like immunization rates or reported disease cases) that is both frequent (weekly or more frequent) and micro-geographic (zip code or finer).
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(Non)Prescription Drug Use Location/Date

I'm doing a data science project that requires information about the use of specific prescription and over-the-counter drugs by location and date. The location data don't have to be US-specific, but ...
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Is there a developer-friendly open standard / ontology for personal health data?

I am looking to organize and centralize all my personal health data in a machine-readable format on my self-hosted private server. My intention is to have a consolidated, single source of information ...
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Hospital spendings on IT services and infrastructure

How much do hospitals in the EU spend on Software, IT-consulting and IT-infrastructure (servers and such)? How much in individual countries, Germany being of particular interest? This is what I tried: ...
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UVA and UVB radiations every hour over a year in a given city

I'm looking for a dataset that contains how much UVA and UVB radiations a given city received every hour over a year. E.g.: 0.0 kJ/m² UVA and 0.0 kJ m² UVB between 00 and 01 AM on 2020-01-01 in ...
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Rest APIs or Database for Vaccinations and Allergies

I am doing research and looking for an API for Vaccination and Allergies. I found some link like https://data.cdc.gov/ where I can the information but I am looking for something which has all ...
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Yelp Academic Dataset

I heard about the Yelp Dataset, I did not download it yet, I just need to know if the reviews about a specific service on this dataset are identified by the unique id of the person who wrote the ...
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Data sets for recommended nutrition with detailed information?

While there is enough data which give a rough approximated nutrition information, if you dig deeper, you find that depending on a mineral or vitamin there can be big differences for the recommended ...
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Download Drugs & Interactions Database UK

I am looking to download a database of Drugs, Warnings & Interactions for the UK. Is this information freely available? I was in contact with one company and they wanted €3000 per year. The ...
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Daily calorie intake and body weight dataset

I'm devising a mathematical method to filter out weight fluctuations from daily weight measurements. To validate the method, I would require a dataset containing daily weight measurements and calorie ...
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Where can I find data about alternative medicine use?

I am looking for data about alternative and complementary medicine (CAM) use. I need something as detailed as possible. In this moment, I am looking for whatever country has complete and detailed time ...
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Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex dataset

Recently I read in the article Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex that scientists have learned to transform brainwave into sound. Is it possible to find data ...
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NMMAPS availability?

The National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study (NMMAPS) was a large national study of air pollution and health in the United States. The study examined 108 cities spanning the years from ...
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Where can I find publicly available data on American dietary habits and food intake during the Great Depression?

I'm looking for detailed data on American dietary habits during during the Great Depression and WWII era, specifically 1930 - 1945. Were there any surveys that collected detailed information, at a ...
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Unique identifiers of US companies as a means of tracking change

I'm a brand new business analyst for a company that currently maintains its second-hand customer list (given by medical distributors, consisting mostly of hospitals, doctor's offices and smaller ...
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2017 Healthcare Data on Primary Care Service Areas, Availability of Primary Care Providers

I will start by saying I am interested in answering a few specific questions namely: Number of Primary Care Providers per 10,000 persons Percentage of areas with Low Primary Care Physician Supply (...
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Yoga, Gym, Fitness API

I have been searching for an API to get the Yoga, Gymnastic exercises details and curriculum with appropriate steps and measures. I am planning to use these details for my upcoming project. As to my ...
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Deaths per year per Pakistan province? (2010-present)

I've been trying to look for data on the number of community health worker deaths in Pakistan, ideally those who were working with polio vaccinations. In particular, I'm trying to look for the number ...
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Long haul flight density at Dulles International Airport

I have an emergency department admission data-set for deep vein thrombosis. Long haul travel is a risk factor for DVT. I would like data on long haul travel to see if there is any correlation with DVT....
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Diabetic vs non-diabetic dataset

I'm looking for information for a research. I need some data on a group of diabetic people and a group of non-diabetic people. This is some of the information I need: Age Body mass index Fasting ...
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Cost of retirement housing in the regionally in the UK

I was wondering if anyone knew of a data source that had the cost of retirement housing in the UK split by region or postcode?
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What are the sites to download kidney function datasets?

In desperate need for a site that provides medical datasets around kidney function tests (Kidney failure tests) and kidney failure CT scans (datasets) for my graduation project.
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