Kresge Research Guides: ES 620: Healthcare Innovation and Startups: Market and industry research resources

Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences Databases

GlobalData Medical Intelligence Center
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GlobalData Medical covers market data and analysis for marketed products, pipeline products, clinical trials, and deals for medical devices across several sectors. Therapy areas covered include anesthesia & respiratory, cardiovascular, dental, diabetes, ENT, general surgery, in vitro diagnostics, nephrology and urology, neurology, ophthalmic, orthopedic, and wound care.
Gartner
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Healthcare technology use cases, product and vendor evaluations.
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BCC Research
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BCC has market research reports across many industries including: Biotechnology, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Finance, Food and Beverage, Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies, Healthcare, Information Technology, Instrumentation and Sensors, Manufacturing, Materials, Medical Devices, Nanotechnology, Photonics, Plastics, and Semiconductors. It also includes “Franchise Profiles” of companies who franchise some of their locations.
EMIS Emerging Markets
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EMIS includes company profiles, news, market reports, country reports, and data on global emerging markets. EMIS is also a clearing house for several industry research and market firms such as Allied Market Research, Arizton Advisory and Intelligence, BIS Research, BMI Research, BuddeComm Telecom Reports, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Industry Reports, GlobalData, MarketLine, Mordor Intelligence, and Oxford Economics.
Technical notes: Users must create individual accounts in EMIS and login in order to download or export data from the database.
Frost & Sullivan
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Frost & Sullivan is a research and consulting firm that tracks trends across a wide variety of industries. Examples include aerospace, agriculture, automotive, banking, electronics, energy, environment, healthcare, information technology, manufacturing, media, materials, oil & gas, security, telecom, With a strong emphasis on technology and markets, research focuses on competitive intensity, customer dynamics, industry convergence, disruptive technologies, global mega trends, new business models, and emerging markets.
Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Frost & Sullivan."

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Healthcare Consumer Research

Mintel
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Mintel's healthcare coverage includes therapeutic application research (digestive health, skin care, etc.), and healthcare product and services consumer survey data.
Euromonitor Passport
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Euromonitor's Consumer Health coverage includes market and consumer data on a wide variety of health and nutrition products and companies, company/brand/product sales data, and consumer expenditure and related data.
Video tutorials:
- Euromonitor International YouTube Channel
eMarketer
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eMarketer covers the digital marketplace with reports and charts on advertising spending by media, brand marketing, digital advertising, mobile apps, mobile devices, consumer behavior and experience, Ecommerce, social media usage and other topics.

Technical notes: Please log out of this resource as directed when finished. Failing to log out may prevent others from using the database.
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Video tutorials:
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Healthcare Industry Statistics & Business Environment Data

HCUP - Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. HCUP Databases contain information on inpatient stays, emergency department visits, and ambulatory care.
Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample (NASS)
The NASS is the largest all-payer ambulatory surgery database in the United States, yielding national estimates of major ambulatory surgery encounters performed in hospital-owned facilities.

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

National Hospital Discharge Survey

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

Additional Healthcare, Biotech & Life Sciences Databases

American Hospital Directory
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The American Hospital Directory includes data on hospital facilities in the US including, number of beds, number of employees, ownership type (govt., private, public), revenue, visits, services provided, patient days, discharges, and more. Most data is obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Technical notes: Use of scripts or automated methods to download data from AHD.com is strictly prohibited. If you require access to a larger dataset, please contact us at kresge_library@umich.edu.
Statista
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Statista includes ready-made statistical charts, graphs and tables on marketing, demographics, communication, technology, politics, health, leisure and public opinion polls.