The Affordable Care Act and other recent initiatives have opened large amounts of hospital data to prying eyes, Ronald Campbell writes in a review of what's available: "Hospitals are always complaining that their ER’s are financial black holes. So why not dig into the numbers and find out what’s really going on? The data is just sitting there for free. And it’s available in formats you can download into Excel or any database manager (CSV, CSV for Excel, tab-separated)."
December 13, 2016