Healthcare Payments Data (HPD) Healthcare Measures

The data cover three measurement categories: Health conditions, Utilization, and Demographics. The health condition measurements quantify the prevalence of long-term illnesses and major medical events prominent in California’s communities like diabetes and heart failure.

Utilization measures convey rates of healthcare system use through visits to the emergency department and different categories of inpatient stays, such as maternity or surgical stays. The demographic measures describe the health coverage and other characteristics (e.g., age) of the Californians included in the data and represented in the other measures. The data include both a count or sum of each measure and a count of the base population so that data users can calculate the percentages, rates, and averages in the visualization.