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.

API examples

Full documentation in the wiki

SODA services

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

Application examples

• 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).
• ...