OpenHealth, a web computing sandbox to explore public health data.
Live tool at https://mathbiol.github.io/openHealth.
Published report: Almeida JS, Hajagos J, Crnosija I, T Kurc, M Saltz, J Saltz (2015) OpenHealth Platform for Interactive Contextualization of Population Health Open Data. Proceedings AMIA 2015: 297-305 [PMID:26958160].
To incorporate openHealth into your tool/analysis, all you need is
<script src="https://mathbiol.github.io/openHealth/openHealth.js"></script>or, if you have jQuery,
$.getScript("https://mathbiol.github.io/openHealth/openHealth.js")OpenHealth is a stand alone JavaScript library to help interoperating with public data sources of Health data. It creates a single object, openHealth in the DOM namespace following the same "namespace pollution" approach common in analytical environments such as Matlab and R.
Full documentation in the wiki
A substancial number of Open Health Data resources are delivered through Socrata Open Data API webs services (SODA).
- openHealth.soda("URL or URL reference",fun)
// deliver first 1,000 entries that data to the console
openHealth.soda("NY Medicare Inpatient")
// deliver that data to a global variable NYmed
openHealth.soda("NY Medicare Inpatient",function(x){NYmed=x;console.log("done")})
// same data, using the URL directly
openHealth.soda("http://health.data.ny.gov/resource/2yck-xisk.json")
// now get all 31,895 records in that dataset, in gulps of 10,000.
// the undefined second argument indicates no query constraints. It could be, for example, {limit:2000}
openHealth.sodas("NY Medicare Inpatient",undefined,function(x){NYmed=x;console.log("done")})
// etc ...
// for list of URL references for SODA data see
openHealth.sodaData
- Preventable diseases in Suffolk County (snapshot above, uses health.data.ny.gov and census.gov).
- Hospital discharge of diabetic patients (using health.data.ny.gov).
- Extracting national data from the Unique professional ID assigned by NPPES (PNI), and crossing it with CCN numbers from affiliated Hospitals (using data.medicare.gov).
- ...