The Data Provider Node ontology has been developed by CSIRO for describing data provider nodes, web services available and datasets that are hosted by them. This ontology features a module for describing Datasets and Services. It does not however describe geospatial, temporal, organisational or domain concepts as these are intended to be included from other ontologies via the imports statement. Other modules complementary to the DPN ontology are http://purl.org/dpn/dataset and http://purl.org/dpn/services. This version aligns DCAT and DC terms and imports DPN services.

US Healthcare NPI Data is a comprehensive resource offering detailed information on health providers registered in the United States.

Dataset Highlights:

• NPI Numbers: Unique identification numbers for health providers.
• Contact Details: Includes addresses and phone numbers.
• State License Numbers: State-specific licensing information.
• Additional Identifiers: Other identifiers related to the providers.
• Business Names: Names of the provider’s business entities.
• Taxonomies: Classification of provider types and specialties.

Taxonomy Data:

• Includes codes, groupings, and classifications.
• Facilitates detailed analysis and categorization of providers.

Data Updates:

• Weekly Delta Changes: Ensures the dataset is current with the latest changes.
• Monthly Full Refresh: Comprehensive update to maintain accuracy.

Use Cases:

• Market Analysis: Understand the distribution and types of healthcare providers across the US. Analyze market trends and identify potential gaps in healthcare services.
• Outreach: Create targeted marketing campaigns to reach specific types of healthcare providers. Use contact details for direct outreach and engagement with providers.
• Research: Conduct in-depth research on healthcare providers and their specialties. Analyze provider attributes to support academic or commercial research projects.
• Compliance and Verification: Verify provider credentials and compliance with state licensing requirements. Ensure accurate provider information for regulatory and compliance purposes.

Data Quality and Reliability:

• The dataset is meticulously curated to ensure high quality and reliability. Regular updates, both weekly and monthly, ensure that users have access to the most current information. The comprehensive nature of the data, combined with its regular updates, makes it a valuable tool for a wide range of applications in the healthcare sector.

Access and Integration: - CSV Format: The dataset is provided in CSV format, making it easy to integrate with various data analysis tools and platforms. - Ease of Use: The structured format of the data ensures that it can be easily imported, analyzed, and utilized for various applications without extensive preprocessing.

Ideal for:

• Healthcare Professionals: Physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers who need to verify information about their peers.
• Analysts: Data analysts and business analysts who require detailed and accurate healthcare provider data for their projects.
• Businesses: Companies in the healthcare sector looking to understand market dynamics and reach out to providers.
• Researchers: Academic and commercial researchers conducting studies on healthcare providers and services.

Why Choose This Dataset?

• Comprehensive Coverage: Detailed information on millions of healthcare providers across the US.
• Regular Updates: Weekly and monthly updates ensure that the data remains current and reliable.
• Ease of Integration: Provided in a user-friendly CSV format for easy integration with your existing systems.
• Versatility: Suitable for a wide range of applications, from market analysis to compliance and research.

By leveraging the US Healthcare NPI & Taxonomy Data, users can gain valuable insights into the healthcare landscape, enhance their outreach efforts, and conduct detailed research with confidence in the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the data.

Summary:

• This dataset is an invaluable resource for anyone needing detailed and up-to-date information on US healthcare providers. Whether for market analysis, research, outreach, or compliance, the US Healthcare NPI & Taxonomy Data offers the detailed, reliable information needed to achieve your goals.

According to a survey conducted in Indonesia in April 2019, ** percent of respondents stated that they used Telkomsel as their mobile internet provider to browse the internet. Indosat and XL were also popular mobile internet providers in Indonesia among the respondents.

Indonesia is one of the biggest online markets worldwide. As of March 2017, online penetration in the country stood at only slightly over ** percent. Popular online activities include mobile messaging and social media.

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This map shows the access to mental health providers in every county and state in the United States according to the 2024 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps data for counties, states, and the nation. It translates the numbers to explain how many additional mental health providers are needed in each county and state. According to the data, in the United States overall there are 319 people per mental health provider in the U.S. The maps clearly illustrate that access to mental health providers varies widely across the country.The data comes from this County Health Rankings 2024 layer. An updated layer is usually published each year, which allows comparisons from year to year. This map contains layers for 2024 and also for 2022 as a comparison.County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R), a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute with support provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, draws attention to why there are differences in health within and across communities by measuring the health of nearly all counties in the nation. This map's layers contain 2024 CHR&R data for nation, state, and county levels. The CHR&R Annual Data Release is compiled using county-level measures from a variety of national and state data sources. CHR&R provides a snapshot of the health of nearly every county in the nation. A wide range of factors influence how long and how well we live, including: opportunities for education, income, safe housing and the right to shape policies and practices that impact our lives and futures. Health Outcomes tell us how long people live on average within a community, and how people experience physical and mental health in a community. Health Factors represent the things we can improve to support longer and healthier lives. They are indicators of the future health of our communities.Some example measures are:Life ExpectancyAccess to Exercise OpportunitiesUninsuredFlu VaccinationsChildren in PovertySchool Funding AdequacySevere Housing Cost BurdenBroadband AccessTo see a full list of variables, definitions and descriptions, explore the Fields information by clicking the Data tab here in the Item Details of this layer. For full documentation, visit the Measures page on the CHR&R website. Notable changes in the 2024 CHR&R Annual Data Release:Measures of birth and death now provide more detailed race categories including a separate category for ‘Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander’ and a ‘Two or more races’ category where possible. Find more information on the CHR&R website.Ranks are no longer calculated nor included in the dataset. CHR&R introduced a new graphic to the County Health Snapshots on their website that shows how a county fares relative to other counties in a state and nation. Data Processing:County Health Rankings data and metadata were prepared and formatted for Living Atlas use by the CHR&R team. 2021 U.S. boundaries are used in this dataset for a total of 3,143 counties. Analytic data files can be downloaded from the CHR&R website.

This metric measures the frequency with which primary providers do not arrive at the pick-up location within 30 minutes of the promised time and the trip is not provided.

This data file contains information on the number of providers delivering services through the Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) Program from July 1, 2003, through the current Fiscal Year (FY) of available data. Delivering Family PACT services is defined as having been reimbursed for at least one claim for any services through Family PACT. Providers for whom all Family PACT claims have been denied were not designated as delivering providers. All Family PACT providers must also be enrolled as Medi-Cal providers, and Medi-Cal clinician providers who are not enrolled in Family PACT may provide Family PACT services by referral from an enrolled Family PACT provider. For example, if a laboratory or pharmacy is associated with a clinician provider both the laboratory or pharmacy and the clinician are counted. Medi-Cal providers often deliver specialized services as Family PACT provider may not perform, such as sterilization.

This dataset contains measures of broadband internet access and usage per United States ZIP code tabulation area (ZCTA) in 2014 through 2018. The data is derived primarily from internet service providers’ Form 477 reports to the Federal Communications Commission. Key variables include the average upload and download speed of fixed broadband connections, the number of internet service providers, and the number of households with broadband.

The transition towards Personal Data Ecosystems (PDEs) requires sustainable business models that balance data sovereignty between data subjects and providers. This research applies a business model perspective to data sovereignty and PDE research, offering a comprehensive framework for understanding the strategic decisions data providers make regarding data access control in PDEs. Concretely, we investigate the business dimensions that influence data providers' willingness to grant data access control to data subjects via a two-staged methodology. In a first step, 25 interviews identified key business dimensions, representing a trade-off between value proposition (user- and ecosystem value), value network (collaboration and competition), value finance (value capturing and privacy risk) and value architecture (coreness of data, level of processing of data). In a second stage, a use case analysis of the Personal Data Store (PDS) in a mobility PDE was performed, utilizing an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to quantify the preferences of data providers within a mobility ecosystem involving 21 mobility and data experts. This data shows the findings of the AHP analysis, which show value proposition and value finance are the most salient dimensions in this mobility ecosystem.

The analytical hierarchical process (AHP) methodology was employed to research the preferences of data providers in the mobility ecosystem. In this work, the AHP was used to determine the preference of the business dimensions for granting data access control . The preferences of data providers were ranked by experts through a pairwise comparison .Next, respondents assessed the relative importance or preference using a numerical scale ranging from 1 to 9. The AHP was conducted throughout telephone interviews with 21 mobility and data experts in Belgium and the Netherlands. These pairwise comparisons are transformed into individual result matrices, which are used to calculate leading eigen vectors to determine the relative weights of the dimensions. The analysis was performed on a group level, avoiding bias that may be present when the judgements are considered from a single expert. The findings were examined within the overall group that encompassed all participants and within the MAAS and C-ITS subgroups. Using the geometric mean of the individual result matrices, the group matrices are calculated of the different stakeholder groups. The consistency ratio was calculated, for which 0.1 is considered to indicate a tolerable consistent ranking for grouped responses . The “ahpsurvey” package in R was used to analyze the results.

Healthcare Provider/Professional Data contains the data of individual providers and facilities, including their information about opening hours, insurance networks, specialties, NPI, etcetera. In addition to discovering data sources, merging data, running analytics, and receiving decision-making guidance, the bigger problem is responding to marketplace business and patient care demands in a timely manner. Pharmacy contains the location details of pharmacies and has attributes such as addresses, opening hours, facilities, etcetera.

A. Usecase/Applications possible with the data:

a. Provider network data systems (PNDS) - The primary goal of the PNDS is to collect data needed to evaluate provider networks, which include physicians, hospitals, labs, home health agencies, durable medical equipment providers, and so on, for all types of Health Insurers. Such information can be used to:

b. Find health care providers in my network - Use this directory to easily find other providers in my network.

c. Comprehensive services assessment - Determine whether insurers have contracted with a sufficient number of primary care practitioners, clinical specialists, and service facilities (hospitals, labs, etc.) within the insurer's service area.

d. Capacity analysis - Calculate the potential capacity of a managed care plan’s primary care providers.

e. Locate pharmacies in your local areas.

f. Support Employee Benefits Decisions - Having access to network data can help you make better decisions about which providers to use for Employee Medical Benefits.

g. Know about the facilities available across different pharmacies.

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The CMS Program Statistics - Medicare Providers summary tables provide data on institutional (i.e., hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospices, etc.) and non-institutional (i.e., physicians, nonphysicians, specialists, and suppliers) providers. For additional information on enrollment, providers, and Medicare use and payment, visit the CMS Program Statistics page. These data do not exist in a machine-readable format, so the view data and API options are not available. Please use the download function to access the data. Below is the list of tables: MDCR PROVIDERS 1. Medicare Providers: Number of Medicare Certified Institutional Providers, Yearly Trend MDCR PROVIDERS 2. Medicare Providers: Number of Medicare Certified Inpatient Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility Beds and Beds Per 1,000 Enrollees, Yearly Trend MDCR PROVIDERS 3. Medicare Providers: Number of Medicare Certified Facilities, by Type of Control, Yearly Trend MDCR PROVIDERS 4. Medicare Providers: Number of Skilled Nursing Facilities and Medicare Certified Hospitals, and Number of Beds, by State, Territories, Possessions and Other Areas MDCR PROVIDERS 5. Medicare Providers: Number of Medicare Certified Providers, by Type of Provider, by State, Territories, Possessions, and Other Areas MDCR PROVIDERS 6. Medicare Providers: Number of Medicare Non-Institutional Providers by Specialty, Yearly Trend MDCR PROVIDERS 7. Medicare Providers: Number of Medicare Non-Institutional Providers, by State, Territories, Possessions, and Other Areas, Yearly Trend

The Nuclear Medicine National HQ System database is a series of MS Excel spreadsheets and Access Database Tables by fiscal year. They consist of information from all Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) performing or contracting nuclear medicine services in Veterans Affairs medical facilities. The medical centers are required to complete questionnaires annually (RCS 10-0010-Nuclear Medicine Service Annual Report). The information is then manually entered into the Access Tables, which includes: * Distribution and cost of in-house VA - Contract Physician Services, whether contracted services are made via sharing agreement (with another VA medical facility or other government medical providers) or with private providers. * Workload data for the performance and/or purchase of PET/CT studies. * Organizational structure of services. * Updated changes in key imaging service personnel (chiefs, chief technicians, radiation safety officers). * Workload data on the number and type of studies (scans) performed, including Medicare Relative Value Units (RVUs), also referred to as Weighted Work Units (WWUs). WWUs are a workload measure calculated as the product of a study's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, which consists of total work costs (the cost of physician medical expertise and time), and total practice costs (the costs of running a practice, such as equipment, supplies, salaries, utilities etc). Medicare combines WWUs together with one other parameter to derive RVUs, a workload measure widely used in the health care industry. WWUs allow Nuclear Medicine to account for the complexity of each study in assessing workload, that some studies are more time consuming and require higher levels of expertise. This gives a more accurate picture of workload; productivity etc than using just 'total studies' would yield. * A detailed Full-Time Equivalent Employee (FTEE) grid, and staffing distributions of FTEEs across nuclear medicine services. * Information on Radiation Safety Committees and Radiation Safety Officers (RSOs). Beginning in 2011 this will include data collection on part-time and non VA (contract) RSOs; other affiliations they may have and if so to whom they report (supervision) at their VA medical center.Collection of data on nuclear medicine services' progress in meeting the special needs of our female veterans. Revolving documentation of all major VA-owned gamma cameras (by type) and computer systems, their specifications and ages. * Revolving data collection for PET/CT cameras owned or leased by VA; and the numbers and types of PET/CT studies performed on VA patients whether produced on-site, via mobile PET/CT contract or from non-VA providers in the community.* Types of educational training/certification programs available at VA sites * Ongoing funded research projects by Nuclear Medicine (NM) staff, identified by source of funding and research purpose. * Data on physician-specific quality indicators at each nuclear medicine service.* Academic achievements by NM staff, including published books/chapters, journals and abstracts. * Information from polling field sites re: relevant issues and programs Headquarters needs to address. * Results of a Congressionally mandated contracted quality assessment exercise, also known as a Proficiency study. Study results are analyzed for comparison within VA facilities (for example by mission or size), and against participating private sector health care groups. * Information collected on current issues in nuclear medicine as they arise. Radiation Safety Committee structures and membership, Radiation Safety Officer information and information on how nuclear medicine services provided for female Veterans are examples of current issues.The database is now stored completely within MS Access Database Tables with output still presented in the form of Excel graphs and tables.

California Medical Fee-for-Service

Geographic, Legal and Specialty Data for In-State and Out-of-State Providers

By California Health and Human Services [source]

About this dataset

Welcome to the California Health and Human Services Agency's Open Data Portal! Here, you can explore and utilize information from one of the state's most valuable assets: the non-confidential data set of Medi-Cal Fee-for-Service (FFS) program providers.

This dataset provides insight into Medi-Cal FFS enrollment. The information was retrieved from the Provider Master File (PMF), which is maintained by the Provider Enrollment Division (PED). With this dataset, you will gain insights into provider number, legal name, type description, specialty description and other geographical data points such as county code, attention line address parts , landmark coordinate points (longitude/latitude) and more!

The goal with this Open Data Portal initiative is to empower Californians with:

• Increased public access to high quality health & human service data;
• Stemmed creativity & innovation in research;
• The ability to make informed decisions about our health & services providers;
• Transparency in government policy expenditure measures.

Our hope is that you'll use these tools for responsible data analytics exploration on not just Medi-Cal FFS provision but on any related subject matter that interest& benefit your community at large. Good luck & happy researching!

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Research Ideas

• Creating a mobile application or website to help people easily and quickly find their nearest Medi-Cal FFS providers based on location, specialty and provider type.
• Developing analytics tools to help organizations understand the concentrations of providers across the state in order to inform decision making when considering regional expansion and improving service accessibility.
• Developing a tool that visualizes specialty diversity across the state to identify areas with low provider density while helping inform strategies aimed at increasing access to care for communities with high needs populations

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

License: Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 - You are free to: - Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. - Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - You must: - Give appropriate credit - Provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. - ShareAlike - You must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. - Keep intact - all notices that refer to this license, including copyright notices. - No Derivatives - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. - No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Columns

File: Profile_of_Enrolled_Medi-Cal_Fee-for-Service_FFS_Providers_as_of_May_1_2016.csv | Column name | Description | |:----------------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------| | NPI | National Provider Identifier (Number) | | SERVICE LOCATION NUMBER | Unique identifier for the provider's service location (Number) | | LEGAL NAME | Legal name of the provider (Text) | | TYPE DESCRIPTION | Type of provider (Text) | | SPECIALTY DESCRIPTION | Specialty of the provider (Text) | | OUT OF STATE INDICATOR | Indicates if the provider is located out of state (Boolean) | | IN/OUT OF STATE | Indicates if the provider is located in or out of state (Text) | | COUNTY CODE | County code of the provider's service location (Number) | | COUNTY NAME | County name of the provider's service location (Text) | | ADDRESS ATTENTION | Attention line of the provider's address (Text) | | ADDRESS LINE 1 | First l...

United States Sold to End Users: Switched Access Lines: Internet Also (IA) data was reported at 793.000 Number in Dec 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 812.000 Number for Jun 2023. United States Sold to End Users: Switched Access Lines: Internet Also (IA) data is updated semiannually, averaging 889.000 Number from Jun 2014 (Median) to Dec 2023, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 919.000 Number in Jun 2016 and a record low of 793.000 Number in Dec 2023. United States Sold to End Users: Switched Access Lines: Internet Also (IA) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Communications Commission. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.TB010: Number of Mobile Voice Subscriptions Providers.

Japan JP: Number of Subscriber: Internet: CATV Access Service Users data was reported at 6,899,344.000 Unit in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 6,878,811.000 Unit for Mar 2018. Japan JP: Number of Subscriber: Internet: CATV Access Service Users data is updated quarterly, averaging 5,732,321.000 Unit from Jun 2004 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6,899,344.000 Unit in Jun 2018 and a record low of 2,679,262.000 Unit in Jun 2004. Japan JP: Number of Subscriber: Internet: CATV Access Service Users data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of internal affairs and communications. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.TB001: Internet Service Provider and Subscriber.

List of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offering residential broadband service in New York City as of Dec. 2016, according to data made publicly available by the Federal Communications Commission.

This dataset tracks the updates made on the dataset "Providers Delivering Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (PACT) Services, by Fiscal Years" as a repository for previous versions of the data and metadata.

Japan JP: Number of Subscriber: Internet: DSL Access Service Users data was reported at 2,042,283.000 Unit in Jun 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,146,444.000 Unit for Mar 2018. Japan JP: Number of Subscriber: Internet: DSL Access Service Users data is updated quarterly, averaging 7,789,381.000 Unit from Jun 2004 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14,517,859.000 Unit in Mar 2006 and a record low of 2,042,283.000 Unit in Jun 2018. Japan JP: Number of Subscriber: Internet: DSL Access Service Users data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of internal affairs and communications. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.TB001: Internet Service Provider and Subscriber.

Abstract

Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) data consists of Inpatient Data.

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The Research and Development Survey (RANDS) is a platform designed for conducting survey question evaluation and statistical research. RANDS is an ongoing series of surveys from probability-sampled commercial survey panels used for methodological research at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). RANDS estimates are generated using an experimental approach that differs from the survey design approaches generally used by NCHS, including possible biases from different response patterns and sampling frames as well as increased variability from lower sample sizes. Use of the RANDS platform allows NCHS to produce more timely data than would be possible using traditional data collection methods. RANDS is not designed to replace NCHS’ higher quality, core data collections. Below are experimental estimates of telemedicine access and use for three rounds of RANDS during COVID-19. Data collection for the three rounds of RANDS during COVID-19 occurred between June 9, 2020 and July 6, 2020, August 3, 2020 and August 20, 2020, and May 17, 2021 and June 30, 2021. Information needed to interpret these estimates can be found in the Technical Notes. RANDS during COVID-19 included questions about whether providers offered telemedicine (including video and telephone appointments) in the last 2 months—both during and before the pandemic—and about the use of telemedicine in the last 2 months during the pandemic. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many local and state governments discouraged people from leaving their homes for nonessential reasons. Although health care is considered an essential activity, telemedicine offers an opportunity for care without the potential or perceived risks of leaving the home. The National Health Interview Survey, conducted by NCHS, added telemedicine questions to its sample adult questionnaire in July 2020. The Household Pulse Survey (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/telemedicine-use.htm), an online survey conducted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the Census Bureau in partnership with other federal agencies including NCHS, also reports estimates of telemedicine use during the pandemic (beginning in Phase 3.1, which started on April 14, 2021). The Household Pulse Survey reports telemedicine use in the last 4 weeks among adults and among households with at least one child under age 18 years. The experimental estimates on this page are derived from RANDS during COVID-19 and show the percentage of U.S. adults who have a usual place of care and a provider that offered telemedicine in the past 2 months, who used telemedicine in the past 2 months, or who have a usual place of care and a provider that offered telemedicine prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Technical Notes: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/rands/telemedicine.htm#limitations