Finding Data for Health Sciences

The information is used to help monitor the health of West Virginians by analyzing birth, death, behavioral and other health data. Such analysis can identify areas where specific interventions might favorably impact the health of state residents.

The Center for Local Health coordinates monitoring among Bureau offices and centers and serves as a central point of contact on the local public health system.

The Office of Epidemiology & Prevention services provide surveillance for infectious disease cases in West Virginia. Information available includes cases reported by county and state.

The West Virginia Hospital Inpatient Data System (WVHIDS) collects and analyzes uniform billing (UB) data.

Number of discharges from West Virginia Hospitals by patient's county of residence.

The Data Center is a user-friendly and easily accessible way to get health insurance coverage estimates from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS) and the American Community Survey (ACS).

Annual reports; also includes State Snapshots.

State health statistics from the Kaiser Foundation.

The Integrated Data Repository consists of WVU Medicine data beginning in 1994, with the most complete and accurate data starting in 2008, when WVU Medicine began using the Epic system for electronic health records. The IDR currently contains demographics, diagnoses, procedures, medications, and laboratory results for over a million patients.

County Health Rankings and statistics.