The Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW) serves as the data hub for the HHS Community Health Data Initiative. It contains standardized health outcome and health determinant indicators along with associated evidence-based interventions, which can be easily displayed, and will benefit a broad variety of users. The HIW RSS feed will announce indicator and data updates and changes, system enhancements, and other news of interest to HIW users. http://healthindicators.gov/ http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/images/cdclogo.jpg 100 75 en-US imtech@cdc.gov (imtech) Health Public Health As of May 31, 2013, the HIW team will be archiving older versions (Versions 1 and 2) of its APIs for RESTful and SOAP services. Please update your API code to access Version 3 as needed. The base URLs for the Version 3 services can be found at http://www.healthindicators.gov/Developers/Overview. Changes and updates include addressing adding FIPS codes to web service results, and exposing several additional service methods based on foreign keys and unique indices. We also anticipate releasing Version 4, which will have a new data model, in the coming weeks. More details to follow as well as complete API release notes. Contact us at HealthIndicators@cdc.gov with any technical or other HIW questions. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8628406 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8628406 Tue, 07 May 2013 11:02:00 EST On March 28, 2013, we released a data update to the Health Indicators Warehouse involving many indicators. Updated indicators include all Healthy People 2020 Initiative indicators, all CMS Community Utilization and Quality indicators, most indicators using mortality data, and several indicators measuring health at the county and state level. The methodology used to compute estimates for some indicators was also modified and improved. Finally, 25 indicators on a variety of topics have been added to the Warehouse. Full details, including HIW ID reference numbers are included on the Release Notes page. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8627851 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8627851 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:28:00 EST On December 21, 2012, we released a data update to the Health Indicators Warehouse involving many indicators, including all indicators associate with the Healthy People 2020 Initiative, infant mortality indicators, sexually transmitted indicators, as well as several other indicators. The methodology used to compute estimates for some indicators was also modified and improved, including indicators for air quality and children with special heath care needs. Finally, seven indicators on a variety of topics have been added to the Warehouse. Full details, including HIW ID reference numbers are included on the Release Notes page. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8626722 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8626722 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:28:00 EST On October 19, 2012, Version 1.6 of the Health Indicators Warehouse was released. This major release incorporated several additional years of data for the CMS Community Utilization & Quality Indicators, the retiring of some previously included CMS indicators, the inclusion of several new CMS indicators, and a modification to the associated reports for CMS data. HIW now has 174 indicators sourced to CMS with data values covering 2007 through 2010. This release also includes a new Release Notes tab on our About page where a more comprehensive description of changes to the interface and indicators. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8626030 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8626030 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:01:00 EST We have recently updated the HIW database. The HIW now has estimates for 20 indicators using 2009 mortality data and two indicators using 2008 infant mortality data. In addition, we reformatted 17 indicators from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System so that estimates of a similar type are formatted the same for all data years. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8625780 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8625780 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:13:00 EST In this latest release of the HIW, on May 29, 2012, we have added the ability to download not only all data for each indicator, but indicator data by state. This will reduce download time as well as simplify use of data should a user only require information for a specific geography. In addition, the structure of the Excel and CSV download file metadata has been slightly modified for ease of use. Finally, we have added an Indicator Report in PDF format listing all of the indicators with the level of geography and HIW ID number, which may be especially useful for developers. This report is located at the bottom of the right side bar on the Resources tab. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8624038 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8624038 Wed, 30 May 2012 10:02:00 EST In this latest release of the HIW, on March 8, 2012, we have added the ability to filter and display data by specific age, sex, race and ethnic, and other breakdowns. We have added additional years of data and more stratifications by age, race and ethnicity, and sex. The database includes several new indicators (metadata and data). These include HIV prevalence at the national, state and county levels; selected notifiable disease counts at the state and county levels; counts of Medicare certified facilities at the state and hospital referral region levels; Medicare and Medicaid expenditures and managed care participation at the national and state levels, and updates to many Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System, mortality and natality indicators. We have made a few changes to the structure of the database and to the web services, including inclusion of more examples and documentation, and new service methods to access tables and foreign keys have been added. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8623185 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8623185 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EST The latest release of HIW, on January 17, 2012, includes modifications the download files and the interface to improve ease of use. While no new data were added for this release, some data model changes and updates were necessary to support the download file changes. Individual download files are now accessed on a new tab for downloading on each indicator profile page. We separated metadata, that is the information about each indicator that is displayed on the indicator overview tabs, from the data in the new download files. Let us know what you think of these changes or any other thoughts or questions you may have about the Health Indicators Warehouse by emailing us at healthindicators@cdc.gov. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8622508 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8622508 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:21:00 EST We are pleased to announce that on October 4th, 2011 the latest version of the Health Indicators Warehouse was released. This release includes new indicator definitions and associated data for 2009 County-Level Bridged Race data by sociodemographic characteristics, 2009 SAIPE Income and Poverty data, and several additional years of data and stratifications by age, sex and race/ethnicity for mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS-M). Also, data from CMS was refreshed and updates were made to selected Healthy People 2020 indicators. For the HIW system itself, various minor system and interface bugs were addressed. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8621346 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=8621346 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:32:00 EST On June 3, 2011, we released the latest update to the Health Indicators Warehouse. Two new indicators were added: Bridged-Race Population Estimates and Population Density. We have also tweaked the database and application performance to increase the response time. Various aspects of the display have been adjusted and improved. We continue to modify the indicator keywords to improve the searching function. The FAQs and the data sources pages also have been updated. Finally, we have added more documentation for developers, including examples using JSON and XML code for filtering. As always, your feedback and suggestions are welcome at healthindicators@cdc.gov. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=7265713 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=7265713 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:37:00 EST On May 10, 2011, several updates and enhancements were released as Version 1.2. Available data updates were made, including the addition of 2009 data for most BRFSS indicators. We’ve made several enhancements to the searching capabilities, including searching by data source name and initiatives. Response time and query efficiency has been improved through various performance tuning changes. And there we have expanded resources for developers, including release notes specific to the API and example SOAP code for C# and Visual Basic. Be sure to give us your feedback at healthindicators@cdc.gov. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=7129751 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=7129751 Wed, 11 May 2011 15:04:00 EST Version 2 of the Health Indicators Warehouse RESTful and SOAP services has been released. Changes and updates include adding FIPS codes to web service results and exposing several additional service methods based on foreign keys and unique indices. While Version 1 of the services will still be supported, you may wish to update your API code as needed: Change http://services.healthindicators.gov/v1/{REST.svc; SOAP.svc} to http://services.healthindicators.gov/v2/{REST.svc; SOAP.svc}. Please send any feedback or questions to HealthIndicators@cdc.gov. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=6214300 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=6214300 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:33:00 EST The Health Indicator Warehouse has recently added the ability to view the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Community Utilization and Quality Indicators by the 306 Hospital Referral Regions (HRRs). Previously, data for these 151 indicators could be viewed only by state. When you view the map display for a CMS indicator, click on the Hospital Referral Regions button found near the upper right of the map view. The map will refresh and show the HRR borders for the United States. Zoom in and out to explore the data values. HRRs were defined by the Dartmouth Atlas Group to depict health care markets in the United States. Read more about HRRs at http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/methods/geogappdx.pdf. Read more about the CMS Community Utilization and Quality Indicators at http://healthindicators.gov/App_Resources/Documents/20110112CHDI_MethodsPaper.pdf. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=6087090 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=6087090 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:02:00 EST The 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge hosted a code-a-thon at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on February 12, 2011. The Health Indicators Warehouse was featured as a resource for participates to use during the one day event that invited developers to form teams and rapidly develop new apps. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=5589839 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=5589839 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:18:00 EST The US Department of Health and Human Services announced the official launching of the Health Indicators Warehouse. Read the press release at http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/02/20110211a.html. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=5523391 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=5523391 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:23:00 EST Welcome to the Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW). HIW is a new resource serving as the data hub for the HHS Community Health Data Initiative. It contains standardized health outcome and health determinant indicators along with associated evidence-based interventions, which can be easily displayed, and will benefit a broad variety of users. Subscribe to the HIW RSS feed to receive announcements about indicator and data updates and changes, system enhancements, and other news of interest to HIW users. http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=5110655 http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/download.asp?af=h&f=5110655 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:55:00 EST