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Main portal to find and access government information on both the state and federal levels. This is a good place to start for anyone looking for current information.

claim-level file in which each record is a claim incurred by a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Claims include inpatient/outpatient care, prescription drugs, DME, SNF, hospice, etc. There are some demographic and claim-related variables provided in every PUF.

health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services

HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on administrative data, such as hospital discharge data, from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) from the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality of the DHHS.

Dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all.

From the Centers for Disease Control, provides statistical information that guides actions and policies to improve the health of the American people.

Studies that assess the health and nutritional status of people in the United States. Combines interviews and physical examinations.

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has monitored the health of the nation since 1957. NHIS data on a broad range of health topics are collected through personal household interviews

Large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage.

This easy-to-use site has statistics on vital health factors, including obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income, and teen births in nearly every county in America. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Focused on Medicare, find data by hospital, region and medical issues.

Provides health data on more than 700 health topics including demographics, health insurance coverage, health costs, minority health, and women's health for all 50 states.

Pew Research conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. Users will need to create an account at Pew.

Project Tycho® at the University of Pittsburgh seeks to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy making. Includes data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. These data are freely available to anybody interested. Must register for an account.

A dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation) generated or collected through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences.

Maintained by CMS and contains datasets, tools and more.

From ICPSR , Data Lumos is an archive for valuable government data resources requested and/or submitted by the public. Open source, no login required.

ICPSR has several data repositories organized by topic, many of which are health and health care related.

Data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation