1. Shelby County Health Department
2. Tennessee Department of Health
The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and sharing data to inform health policy, programming and planning. TDH provides health reports, fact sheets, and visualizations of data related to Tennesseans' health.
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Explore NIH supported repositories by domain or ICO for submitted data sets.
5. HHS (Health and Human Services) Surveys and Data Resources
The Guide to HHS Surveys and Data Resources is a compilation of information about all major data collection systems sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These surveys and data collection systems allow us to monitor and track the health of the population and the functioning of the health care system.
1. PolicyMap
PolicyMap is a browser-based mapping tool that provides access to a wealth of data concerning physical health, infant and maternal health, uninsured populations, various federal programs, and the location of health facilities such as hospitals and FQHCs. In addition, the tool includes a broad array of data related to Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), such as demographics, income, healthy food access, the economy, housing, public transportation, and more. (View a recorded PolicyMap webinar.)
2. National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA)
The National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) is a publicly available data archive containing measures of the physical, economic, demographic, and social environment at multiple levels of spatial scale (eg, census tract, ZIP code tabulation area, county). Each NaNDA dataset covers all or most of the entire nation (including both rural and urban areas) and represents a set of measures on a single topic of interest, including socioeconomic disadvantage, healthcare, housing, partisanship, and public transit, with temporal coverage dating back to 2000.
Please contact the UT Health Science Center CBMI (Center for Biomedical Informatics) for assistance accessing and using the resources listed below.
Since 2000, CERNER Health Facts® database has captured and stored de-identified, longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) patient data, aggregated and organized to facilitate analyses and reporting – it currently contains data on almost 50 million patients and almost 300 million encounters.
2. Research Enterprise Datawarehouse (rEDW)
The Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) at UTHSC provides access to a cloud-based health research platform TriNetXLive. This platform provides a visual and tabular data summary of the research Enterprise Data Warehouse (rEDW) containing standardized aggregated pediatric and adult healthcare data from Methodist Le Bonheur Health System.
3. MarketScan
The Truven Health MarketScan® Research Databases capture person-specific clinical utilization, expenditures, and enrollment across inpatient, outpatient, prescription drug, and carve-out services. The data come from a selection of large employers, health plans, and government and public organizations. The MarketScan Research Databases link paid claims and encounter data to detailed patient information across sites and types of providers and over time.
The size, scope, breadth, and longitudinal time frame of these data make them unique. They cover a wide range of products, categories, retail channels, stores, and geographic markets in the United States.
Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
2. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Explore data by subject, including "Medicine, Health and Life Sciences."
4. OSF (Open Science Framework)
OSF is a free, open multi-use platform that can be used to work collaboratively on research projects and openly share research data.
5. Figshare
Figshare is a free and open sharing data repository that can be searched or browsed by category. Many journal publishers partner with Figshare to share datasets associated with publications.