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Intro

The HealthData.gov is dedicated to making valuable health data discoverable and available to the public in the hopes of better health outcomes for all. It provides data on a wide range of topics, including environmental health, medical devices, social services, community health, and mental health. The Domo HealthData connector helps you to fetch the public health information datasets for various categories. Use Domo’s HealthData connector to get the recently added datasets and retrieve updated public health data. To learn more about the HealthData API, visit https://www.hhs.gov/web/developer/index.html. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the HealthData connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.
Primary Use Cases This Connector lets you retrieve the recently added datasets and updated public health data.
Primary Metrics
  • The recent and updated public health data.
Primary Company Roles
  • Medical practitioners
  • Facilities roles

  • Director of Operations

  • Data Analysts

  • Strategic planners

  • Hospital managements

  • Doctors and Nurses
Average Implementation Time Less than 1 minute
Ease of Use (on a 1-to-10 scale with 1 being easiest) 1

Prerequisites

This connector returns public data, so no credentials are required.

Accessing the public health dataset

This section enumerates the options in the Details panes in the HealthData Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

Details Pane

This pane contains list of the recently updated health datasets.

Menu

Description

Dataset Select a Dataset to fetch the data for.

Other Panes

For information about the remaining sections of the Connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.

FAQs

The base URL for the HealthData connector is https://www.healthdata.gov/.
This connector returns public data, so no credentials are required.
As often as needed.
No