Delaware Health Force (DHF) is a public-private partnership between the Delaware Academy of Medicine and Public Health and the State of Delaware, to gather and aggregate healthcare workforce data; introduce geographic mapping and population demographics/trends; all to better inform policy decisions and resource allocations based on the needs of the community. Importantly, this system is designed to operate in near real-time with a maximum 45-day lag in primary licensing data from DELPROS.
Core data comes from the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation’s DELPROS database of publicly available information on all licensed healthcare providers, dentists, therapists, psychologists, and other related practitioners. Accessed monthly, DELPROS is our “source of truth” that is then enriched and appended with a range of different information types from educational background, specialty and subspecialty, demographic, hospital affiliation, languages spoken, and other information.
There are some excellent, recurrent surveys undertaken with target healthcare practitioners with a “point in time” perspective. Our system is different – aggregating data from various sources in (almost) real-time to allow response to be both dynamic and data-driven.
In addition to our own Data and Mapping dashboards, we also provide access to a Lightcast Dashboard (based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and proprietary sources) and Rural Health Insights from Stoudwater Associates.
