Managing Editor
@ShahidNShah
@ShahidNShah
Conducting market research for your healthcare IT app
Many of you out there are looking at the ARRA (stimulus) bill for ways to sell your healthcare IT wares to healthcare providers. One of the weaknesses of most tech-focused companies is that don’t spend enough time on market research to figure out where to sell their products. That’s primarily because it’s not always easy to get useful statistics so here’s a little advice I give to my startups when they ask “where do I find out how many doctors there are in the country?”.
Check out the following sites:
- Kaiser’s StateHealthFacts.org
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- Bureau of Labor Statistics Healthcare Industry Guide
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CMS’s Research, Statistics, Data & Systems Guide
- Kaiser’s site is a very nice site to start with — it provides all kinds of health statistics but you might be very interested in the Providers & Service Use statistics which contains details like the following:
**Hospitals** Total Hospitals Hospitals by Ownership Beds Beds by Ownership Admissions Admissions by Ownership Emergency Room Visits Emergency Room Visits by Ownership Inpatient Days Inpatient Days by Ownership Outpatient Visits Outpatient Visits by Ownership **Hospital Trends** Total Hospitals, 1999-2007 Hospitals by Ownership, 1999-2007 Beds, 1999-2007 Beds by Ownership, 1999-2007 Admissions, 1999-2007 Admissions by Ownership, 1999-2007 ER Visits, 1999-2007 ER Visits by Ownership, 1999-2007 Inpatient Days, 1999-2007 Inpatient Days by Ownership, 1999-2007 Outpatient Visits, 1999-2007 Outpatient Visits by Ownership, 1999-07 **Medical Errors** Mandatory Quality Reporting Requirement Hospital-Based Infection Reporting Req. **Nursing Homes** Number of Nursing Home Residents Residents by Primary Payer Source Number of Nursing Homes Nursing Homes by Ownership Type Number of Nursing Home Beds Beds by Certification Category Number of Special Care Beds Nursing Home Occupancy Rates Nurse Hours per Resident Day Avg # of Nursing Home Deficiencies % Nursing Homes with Deficiencies % of Homes w/ Serious Deficiencies Top Ten Nursing Home Deficiencies Nursing Home Resident and Family Groups **Rural Health Clinics** Total Rural Health Clinics **Federally Qualified Health Centers** Total FQHCs Total FQHCs Service Delivery Sites Total Patients Served by FQHCs Total FQHC Encounters or Visits FQHC Revenue by Source **Physicians** Total Nonfederal Physicians Nonfederal Physicians per 1,000 Nonfederal Physicians by Gender Nonfederal Physicians by Race Nonfederal Primary Care Physicians Nonfederal PCPs per 1,000 Population Nonfederal Primary Physicians by Field **Health Professional Shortage Areas** Primary Care HPSAs Mental Health HPSAs Dental HPSAs **Access to Care** Could Not See Doctor Because of Cost **Medical School Graduates** Total Medical School Graduates Medical School Graduates by Gender **Medical Malpractice** Paid Medical Malpractice Claims Medical Malpractice Payments **Non-Physician Providers** Total Registered Nurses Registered Nurses per 100,000 Population Total Physician Assistants Physician Assistants per 100,000 Pop. **Dentists** Total Dentists Dentists per 1,000 Population Total Dentists by Gender Dentists by Specialty Field **Health Care Employment** Total Health Care Employment -
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- Bureau of Labor Statistics Healthcare Industry Guide
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Shahid N. Shah
Shahid Shah is an internationally recognized enterprise software guru that specializes in digital health with an emphasis on e-health, EHR/EMR, big data, iOT, data interoperability, med device connectivity, and bioinformatics.
