Healthcare Business: Welcome

A free, commercially based web directory of life science companies and organizations.

Find articles on management, economics, business theory, marketing, and company-specific information. [Some full-text available. Can limit the search to only full-text.]
*Currently available only to people located in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, but not being recognized as someone who should have access? Try turning on the "Share your location" feature.

Use the search box in the upper right corner to search for a company. This site is the free version of D&B - it offers limited company info but is still a great resource.

All companies with that are publicly traded or have public debt must file reports and financial information to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which can be searched using the EDGAR company filings. The annual report, or 10k, contains a companies financials as well their interpretation of the competitive landscape. Other filings, such as the 8K, may also have relevant news about the company and its place in the market.

Allows you to search a list of global Fortune 500 companies going back to the 1990s.

Freely available membership directory of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.

Find find legal information, specifics about a company, and news from around the world.

On this free website you can access stock quotes (including historical,) company profiles, financials, news, etc.

Point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Contains public-use data sets ready for use in spreadsheet programs or statistical and geographic analysis packages.

Documents variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. Uses Medicare data to provide information and analysis.

Insights into industry issues and research

Click on Research Databases --> Health Business Elite. Includes various journals, including access to the Harvard Business Review, going back to 1922.

Reports on latest trends in data and health industries

Business-related resources, statistics, risk assessments, and events for 20 distinct industry sectors. You will find a wealth of information for each industry.

Data on utilization, expenditure, incidence of disease for OECD countries.

Data on medical expenditure, health care utilization, patient safety, outcomes & effectiveness.

Data from various health care surveys on incidence of diseases and conditions, injuries, and health related topics.

UN statistics on incidence of chronic & infectious disease, risk factors, health systems, and service coverage.

Data complied by World Health Organization. Includes a link to the International Drug Price Indicator Guide.

PhRMA, the industry association representing and advocating for the pharmaceutical industry with position papers, white papers and reports on drugs in development by specific condition.

IFPMA is the international pharmaceutical manufacters' association with reports advocating for international diseases and drugs.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) groups establishments into industries based on the similarity of their production processes. The system was introduced in 1997 to replace the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and is used in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. There are 20 sectors and 1,065 industries in the 2012 NAICS United States.
NAICS uses a six-digit coding system to identify particular industries. Industries are placed in a hierarchy of sector, subsector, industry group, NAICS industry, and national industry.
For example:
32 Manufacturing (sector)
325 Chemical Manufacturing
32541 Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing
325412 Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing
Because of its hierarchical nature, researching industries using the NAICS codes makes it easier to understand how industries are related and how they can be broken down. When you are researching industries this hierarchy helps you to understand what you are searching for.
Many government and business databases offer the option to search by NAICS code. This is a good way to research competitors by ensuring you are finding all of the relevant businesses for the industry you are researching.

This is the main listing of business-related data sets covered in the Census. A few to be aware of include:
-Statistics of US Business (SUSB)
-County Business Patterns (CBP)

A resource for information about the customers, competition, and market for small businesses. Built primarily for small business owners who need key data for their business plan or to better understand their potential market. It presents data for a single type of business and geography at a time.

Provides basic information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

An annual series that provides county economic data by industry. Like Statistics of US Businesses, County Business Patterns excludes data on self-employed individuals, employees of private households, railroad employees, agricultural production employees, and most government employees.

Based on detailed surveys of consumers and pharmacies, data on household medical expenditures by specific condition. Data on specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope, and breadth of health insurance held by and available to U.S. workers. Summary tables available by disease also. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ.

This is a big source of global macroeconomic and trade data. Some reports and data are available for free. Click on the Statistics link on their main page to see a list of all the categories of statistics they cover.

There is both a free and fee-based version of Statista. The free site searches through freely-available resources. One of Statista's strengths is that is points to the source of the data and will link you to the original report or site.

An annual series that provides national and state-level data on numbers of businesses and employees, broken out by industry. The series excludes data on self-employed individuals, employees of private households, railroad employees, agricultural production employees, and most government employee

This is the new platform for accessing data from the US Census. You can search by keyword.

This link: https://tinyurl.com/AskCensusBizRef will take you to an explanation of the data.census.gov site and also provides some links in the sidebar to specific content.

It's easy to search across their over-2000 data points from a number of World Bank data sources. Search by country or topic--they cover a lot, from agriculture to transportation to population demographics and everything in between.