Kresge Research Guides: Healthcare, Biotech and Life Sciences Guide: Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences

Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences Databases

GlobalData Medical Intelligence Center
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- Includes seven medical equipment databases, news and opinions, and research reports. Databases include information on medical equipment market size and share, product and pipeline, deals, clinical trials, procedures, and patents, by country and company.
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EvaluatePharma
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EvaluatePharma is the leader in consensus forecasts of leading industry analysts and analysis of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology healthcare sectors. Information includes sales by indication, licensing deals, merger & acquisitions, venture financing, IPOs, and orphaned drugs.
For more information see the EvaluatePharma Overview page.

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EMIS Emerging Markets
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EMIS covers many medical and healthcare-related topics. Search on your keywords and then limit your results to publication type: Analysis and Research to see reports and remove news and company info.
BCC Research
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BCC Research provides access to market research reports and market forecasting in advanced materials, biotechnology, chemicals, energy, healthcare, sensors, plastics, nanotechnology, and other emerging technologies. Over 250 research reports are published annually.
Frost & Sullivan
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- Research in market analysis, technical reports, end-user studies, and quantitative measurement based reports.
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Gartner
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Gartner covers a number of Healthcare and Biotech topics, especially related to technology.
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FitchConnect
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BMI covers Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare as well as some biotech and related topics. Of specific note is their content related to healthcare infrastructure (hospital construction) and disease prevalence. To find these data sets, click on the BMI Databases link and select either Infrastructure Key Projects Database (Healthcare is under the Social Infrastructure sector) or the Disease Database.
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Macro Overview-Country Risk, Industry Risk, Global Research, Interactive Charts.

Country Risk and Industry Research search for multiple countries and industries

Interactive Charts

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Technavio
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Technavio has industry reports covering a wide variety of technologies in the communication services, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financials, health care, industrials, information technology, materials, and utilities industries.

Technical Notes: Downloading reports requires a valid @umich.edu email. Users are limited to 10 downloads per month with unlimited online report viewing.

Additional Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences Databases

American Hospital Directory
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- Detailed financial, architectural, personnel, and service information for United States hospitals. Data is compiled from Medicare claims, cost reports, and public files from the Federal Care Financing Administration.
Statista
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- Statista covers all kinds of topics, including healthcare, biotech and life sciences.

Healthcare Industry Statistics & Business Environment Data

Health Statistics Research Guide - MLibrary

A great place to start your search for health and healthcare-related statistics

Physician Fee Schedule - from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Reimbursement rates for a variety of procedures
Official medical coding is needed to search for procedures; find the codes at:
- HCPCS information from the CMS - About the Codes, and links to the files
- HCPCS file links
- Free code lookup - including HCPCS, ICD-9 and -10 and more

National Center for Health Statistics

Landing page with links to health statistics from multiple sources
Health indicators, surveys and survey data, links to classification and coding resources, international statistics

Health Indicators Warehouse

Find data on a wide variety of health-related topics, including chronic diseases and conditions, disabilities, health behavior

National Hospital Discharge Survey

Data on procedures and disease incidences in the United States, from the CDC