The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offers researchers and other health care professionals a broad range of quantitative information on their programs, from estimates of future Medicare and Medicaid spending to enrollment, spending, and claims data, and a broad range of consumer research to help its partners and staff. CMS also conducts demonstration projects to explore alternative...

The Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) provide current as well as historic data for more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation's counties, as well as state and national data. They contain information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. In addition,...

The Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) dataset contains land use and geographic data about New York City at the tax lot level. It is an open data set compiled by various agencies and departments in the New York City government, including the Department of City Planning (DCP), Department of Finance (DOF), Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), and Landmarks Preservation Commission...

To construct a fixed time-scaled phylogenetic tree, the investigators combined 828 viral genome sequences obtained from COVID-19 patients at NYU Langone Health between March and May 2020 with 1,899 background sequences that were contributed to the Nextstrain repository. A total of 2,727 SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences are available in the dataset. The supporting R code included with the dataset will produce...

Utilizing genomic sequencing data collected from COVID-19 patients in New York City metropolitan area, investigators produced a comparison of the introduction and dispersal of the main SARS-CoV-2 variants (Alpha, Iota, Delta, and Omicron-BA.1) from 2020 through 2022. The analysis included 5,577 sequences obtained from samples collected as part of genomic surveillance at NYU Langone Health from December...

This dataset was collected to compare cannabis and alcohol policies for localities (N = 241) within 12 California counties. The investigators collected and coded the legal text to compare overall restrictiveness and nine specific provisions that applied to both substances: Limits on hours of sale Limits on advertising Responsible server training requirements Prohibitions on outlet overconcentration Minimum...

Matthay et al integrated multiple data sources to investigate the association between local policies in California on cannabis outlet distribution, particularly in vulnerable neighborhoods. For 241 localities within 12 counties in California, the investigators identified seven policies pertaining to the density or location of recreational cannabis outlets, geocoded outlets using web-scraped data from...

This study compared SARS-CoV-2 sequences that were collected from infected patients (n=2,397) who were seen at NYU Langone Health facilities and globally (n=24,060 sequences in GISAID) between August 1, 2022, and February 4, 2023 to understand the proliferation of Omicron strain XBB.1.5. Active SARS-CoV-2 infection was confirmed with positive real-time (RT)-qPCR testing. To assess the association between...