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The 10 Best Health Care Services Datasets in 2026

10 Health care services picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. Medicare Care Compare leads.

  • 10ranked picks
  • 23documented fields on stage
  • 1/9with mapped coverage

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Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.

  1. 1 9/10
    Health care services

    Medicare Care Compare

    facility_id · hospital_type · hospital_ownership …+5 more

  2. 2 9/10
    Health care services

    Open Payments

    One row per aggregated payment or transfer of value.

  3. 3 9/10
    Health care services

    WHO Global Health Observatory Data Repository

    It ranks third on unmatched breadth with the disaggregation preserved rather than flattened away.

  4. 4 OECD Health Statistics
  5. 5 9/10

    It ranks fifth on role: site-selection, loan-repayment eligibility and access-to-care research all key off this register and no other record plays it.

  6. 6 9/10
    Health care services

    HealthData.gov Catalog

    It ranks sixth because the catalog is both a discovery layer and a deep cut: one request serves either a national dashboard or a single-market teardown.

  7. 7 8/10
    Health care services England

    NHS England Statistics Data Collections

    Trust level with treatment-function specialty splits for RTT. national and regional aggregates alongside.

  8. 8 8/10

    It ranks eighth on clean joins: most series originate with WHO and UN agencies, harmonized once by the Bank so a code means the same thing everywhere.

  9. 9 8/10
    Health care services

    Our World in Data - Health Dataset

    It ranks ninth on presentation economics: the fastest route from question to citable country-year chart in the catalog.

  10. 10 8/10
    Health care services

    WHO Data Portal

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best dataset for hospital quality data?

Medicare Care Compare. One typed row per certified provider - about 5,400 hospitals, 14,700 nursing homes, 12,500 home health agencies and 7,500 dialysis facilities - each keyed by CMS Certification Number with overall star ratings that decompose into named measure groups such as 8 mortality measures and 11 readmission measures per hospital.

Where can I find data on payments from drug and device companies to doctors?

CMS Open Payments, the record behind the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. The 2024 General Payments detailed file alone carries 15,498,687 aggregated payment rows across 91 columns, with program years 2019 through 2025 published and dispute flags riding on every contested record.

Which dataset has the most health indicators across countries?

The WHO Global Health Observatory, verified at 3,093 distinct indicator codes for all 194 Member States, disaggregated by sex, age band, wealth quintile and urban or rural setting where published. The World Bank HNP panel adds 240 harmonized health series for up to 265 entities reaching back to 1960.

Where can I get HPSA scores by county?

The HRSA Data Warehouse's Health Workforce Shortage Areas register: every federal HPSA and MUA/P designation with discipline class, a 0-to-26 primary care score, status and dates, geocoded from facility points through census tracts and counties to state rollups across all fifty states, DC, the territories and the freely associated states.

Is there a dataset of NHS waiting times?

NHS England Statistics & Data Collections: referral-to-treatment waits as an accredited National Statistics series from March 2007, running 3,552 provider-specialty rows per monthly release across 148 trusts, beside A&E attendances and KH03 bed occupancy quarterly back to 1987-88.

How many health care services datasets does Datadory deliver?

Sixteen primary records carry Health Care Services as their industry tag, spanning US facility quality, payment transparency, workforce-shortage geography, cross-country panels, operational statistics and community corpora. Ten rank on this page; the remaining six serve narrower briefs and are listed below the scorecard.