Health Data Portal

Colorado

There is so much data we have a hard time finding it!  When we find it, it's hard to access or understand.  This website is dedicated to collecting data from silos and making it more transparent, to improve collaboration of stakeholders and advance health and well-being for all.

See this article on "Wasted Health Spending" in Health Affairs, May 2018.

See Health Data Portals created for Broomfield County and Summit County and Larimer County

County Health Rankings offers excellent data aggregation and access to state data by county, using the social determinants of health as their framework. Metrics of Colorado Counties, from County Health Rankings, have been downloaded to build a pivot table with features for selecting the data you need or want. See examples of extracts from the pivot table. Download the pivot table to open in Excel; then select other counties and "save as" a pdf file. Stakeholders should include this data in their "Community Health Assessments". Without data transparency, no accountability.

See data sets from the Center for Improving the Value of Healthcare (CIVHC) as well as this excellent presentation at USA Facts, by their CEO, Steve Ballmer.

See the "Data Set Directory for Social Determinants of Health" at the CDC website

See the excellent Health Compass for Boulder and Broomfield counties, an application by Healthy Communities Institute (Conduent)

County Health Rankings provides us with data taken from many different data sites. They provide insight to the Social Determinants of Health. The website is informative in many ways, and it is our hope these files below will complement the work CHR is doing. Download the Excel files to explore the pivot tables and select your county to see not just the metrics but a context of quintiles as well as a Health Equity Index. The variation between counties is stunning!

Similar metrics are available at the city level, 500 cities, the City Health Dashboard. We are waiting for the data set to be published.

Examples of extracts in pdf format, below. Open the CHR Pivot Table above to Select a County, which extract can then be printed in pdf: