Emergency room discharge data

[max-mapper]

California sells statewide yearly discharge data for a few hundred bucks, it would be great to figure out if we can get that made more accessible and see if other states have it too

[waldoj]

Wow, I had no idea this was a thing. I'll be sure to look around to learn more about this.

[jqnatividad]

Here in NY, there's a couple of interesting datasets. Here's some of em
courtesy of Andrew Nicklin who now leads NY State's open data initiative
after pioneering work in NYC.

Health data:

Inpatient Discharges - https
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/u4ud-w55t://https://health.data.ny.gov/d/u4ud-w55t
health.data.ny.gov
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/u4ud-w55t/d/https://health.data.ny.gov/d/u4ud-w55t
u4ud https://health.data.ny.gov/d/u4ud-w55t-w55thttps://health.data.ny.gov/d/u4ud-w55t

Prevention Indicators - https
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/cekp-nqfv://https://health.data.ny.gov/d/cekp-nqfv
health.data.ny.gov
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/cekp-nqfv/d/https://health.data.ny.gov/d/cekp-nqfv
cekp https://health.data.ny.gov/d/cekp-nqfv-https://health.data.ny.gov/d/cekp-nqfv
nqfv https://health.data.ny.gov/d/cekp-nqfv

Heart-related Outcomes - https
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/jtip-2ccj://https://health.data.ny.gov/d/jtip-2ccj
health.data.ny.gov
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/jtip-2ccj/d/https://health.data.ny.gov/d/jtip-2ccj
jtip https://health.data.ny.gov/d/jtip-2ccj-2ccjhttps://health.data.ny.gov/d/jtip-2ccj

Nursing Home Availability - https https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qw8r-j36d
:// https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qw8r-j36dhealth.data.ny.govhttps://health.data.ny.gov/d/qw8r-j36d
/d/ https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qw8r-j36dqw8rhttps://health.data.ny.gov/d/qw8r-j36d
-j36d https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qw8r-j36d

Restaurant Inspections* - https
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qd6f-nmcs://https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qd6f-nmcs
health.data.ny.gov
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qd6f-nmcs/d/https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qd6f-nmcs
qd6f https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qd6f-nmcs-https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qd6f-nmcs
nmcs https://health.data.ny.gov/d/qd6f-nmcs

*Excludes NYC, as well as Suffolk and Erie counties.

In addition, here are a couple of other resources:

https https://health.data.ny.gov/:// https://health.data.ny.gov/
health.data.ny.gov/ https://health.data.ny.gov/ - a data portal focused
on state health information

http:// http://gis.ny.gov/gis.ny.gov/ http://gis.ny.gov/ - the State's
GIS Clearinghouse, a great resource for spatial data.

https https://twitter.com/NYStateCIO:// https://twitter.com/NYStateCIO
twitter.com https://twitter.com/NYStateCIO/https://twitter.com/NYStateCIO
NYStateCIO https://twitter.com/NYStateCIO - The official feed of
@NYStateCIO, which provides updates on the statewide technology initiatives
including the open data effort.

On Jan 29, 2014 12:15 PM, "Waldo Jaquith" notifications@github.com wrote:

Wow, I had no idea this was a thing. I'll be sure to look around to learn
more about this.

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[waldoj]

This is fascinating. It's a whole class of data that I had no idea was being preemptively released by any state governments.