The California Health and Human Services Agency launched its open data website this week after completing a public beta. The site is expanded version of the open data portal that the California Department of Public Health launched in August.
The CHHS Open Data Portal folds in data sets already posted on the CDPH Open Data website and adds new data, charts and maps from the Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development (OSHPD). More agencies under HHS supervision are expected to upload their data in the future.
Data sets currently available through the portal include cause of death statistics, West Nile virus case data, high school smoking rates, maps of health-care facilities, mothers’ age giving birth, and much more.
Data from the Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development include seismic ratings and collapse probabilities for California hospitals, utilization rates of cesarean birth delivery, and others.
"One very exciting part of this are the tools for communicating the ability to translate the data into custom views like maps or graphs, and then sharing those creations in variety of ways, including social media and websites. Even better, these views are dynamic, meaning they will automatically update even after they are embedded on a website or shared on social media," said Scott Christman, OSHPD’s chief information officer.
At a launch event in August, Health officials hope the CHHS Open Data Portal, the CDPH data website and others like it eventually become a one-stop for state public health data.
This video details OSHPD’s role in the new open data portal:
