Services

Mayo Clinic HOUSES Program services include:

  • HOUSES Index. Provides individual-level socioeconomic measure at the time of interest.
  • Area Deprivation Index (ADI). Gives aggregate measure for rankings of neighborhoods by socioeconomic disadvantage in a region of interest.
  • Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) classification. RUCA codes provide a breakdown of county-level metropolitan and micropolitan areas — population density, urbanization and daily commuting — to identify urban cores and adjacent territory that is economically integrated with those cores.
  • Urban and rural by census. Offers delineation of geographic areas, identifying both individual urban areas and the rural areas of the nation.
  • Estimation of distance from study subject to a reference place. Furnishes distance from a specific address to a point of interest such as the distance from a patient's home to the hospital.
  • Geo reports. Enable pinpointing event locations of interest on a map and overlaying other events of interest over HOUSES Index distribution.

Watch a video explaining how to use the HOUSES Index:

INTRODUCING HOUSES

A cloud-based platform developed by Mayo Clinic to assess the impacts of social determinants of health on individuals and improve health equity.

GETTING STARTED:

(Accounts created by the HOUSES program)

STEP 1: Go to http://houses.konfidential.io

STEP 2: Login with your username and password

SIGN IN TO YOUR ACCOUNT:

Enter Username or email and Password. (HOUSES Cloud is HIPAA-compliant, all data in transit and at rest is encrypted.)

HOUSES DASHBOARD:

Single Address Search

Submit Search

1) UNDER CHOOSE SEARCH TYPE:

Select Components. Click Next.

2) UNDER ENTER SEARCH DATA:

Enter the address you want to look up. Click Next.

3) UNDER ADD REFERENCE ADDRESS:

Enter the reference address*. For this example, let's use Mayo Clinic's address: 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905. (*The reference address is a point of interest that helps calculate the proximity for the selected address. Note that this step is optional; you can proceed without a reference address.)

Click Next.

4) UNDER CHOOSE YEAR:

Choose the year from the drop-down menu. Click Next.

5) DONE:

Success! Your HOUSES report is ready to view or download.

Additional criteria are available by clicking on the menu icon under Single Address Search. Additional services selected will automatically show on your HOUSES report.

GENERATE A REPORT FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF ADDRESSES AT ONCE:

You can also generate a report for a large number of addresses at once. Click the three lines in the upper right corner of the page. Move your cursor over "search" then click "bulk".

BULK DATA DASHBOARD:

Submit Bulk Data Submission

1) UNDER DATA:

To upload a list of addresses from a CSV file, click "Browse Files". Load the CSV file from your computer. The address information in the CSV file can be organized in two different ways. Let's look at each one:

COMPONENT FORM:

Each part of the the address is grouped into a separate column.

FREE FORM:

All the components of each address are grouped into a single column. Once the file is loaded, click "Next". Select the year and click Next.

2) UNDER REFERENCE ADDRESS:

Enter the reference address. For this example, let's use Mayo Clinic's address: 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905. Click Next.

3) DONE:

The program may take some time to complete your report, depending on the number of entries in your dataset. When your report is finished, you will see "SUCCESS" in the status column. The report can be downloaded by clicking the download icon under the "Results" column.

ACCOUNT SET-UP AND QUESTIONS:

If you have any questions or to set-up an account, please contact: housesindex@mayo.edu

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