Scraping Healthcare Data: CMS, Clinical Trials, and Drug Approvals

Healthcare data is increasingly available through public APIs and government databases. By accessing CMS data, clinical trials, and FDA drug approvals, you can build powerful health analytics tools for research and business intelligence. Why Scrape Healthcare Data? Track clinical trial trends and outcomes Monitor FDA drug approvals and safety alerts Analyze CMS hospital quality metrics Build health tech and research applications Setting Up pip install requests pandas ClinicalTrials.gov API ClinicalTrials.gov provides a free, well-documented API: import requests import pandas as pd def search_clinical_trials ( condition , status = " RECRUITING " , max_results = 50 ): url = " https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/v2/studies " params = { " query.cond " : condition , " filter.overallStatus " : status , " pageSize " : max_results , " fields " : " NCTId,BriefTitle,OverallStatus,StartDate,Condition " } response = requests . get ( url , params = params ) data = response . json () trials = [] for stud