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Health Care Industry Guide, NAICS Code 62

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Sector 62 includes Health Care and Social Assistance recognizing that it is sometimes difficult to separate the two areas of service. The industries are arranged on a continuum starting with those establishments providing exclusively medical care. The services in this sector are delivered by trained professionals. Related Schreyer Business Library industry guides include Pharmaceuticals (NAICS 3254) and Medical Devices (NAICS 3345, 3391). Direct Health and Medical Insurance companies (NAICS 524114) are covered within Insurance. Insurance is covered in a general research guide.

Industry Definitions: Description by NAICS Sector / Sub-Sector

CODE NAICS Sector (WHAT is NAICS?)
62 Health Care and Social Assistance
621 Ambulatory Health Care Services (including Home Health Care Services)
622 Hospitals
Related NAICS:
3391 Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing
42345 Medical, Dental and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Wholesalers

Databases for Industry Research

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

  • Industry surveys
  • Bond ratings
  • Company profiles and corporation records
  • Stock, bond and fund research
Plunkett Research Online (Industry Information)
  • Industry sector analysis and research
  • Industry trends and statistics
  • Market research and trends
  • Company profiles
Reuters Research On-Demand
  • Real-time full-text investment research
  • Reports cover companies and industries
  • Over 750 contributing firms
ValueLine
  • Aggregate data and analysis on industries
  • Reports, articles, and company highlights

ABI/Inform (via ProQuest)

  • Indexes over 1000 business periodicals
  • Trade journals, business magazines, academic journals and other news sources
  • Most articles full text

IBISWorld

  • Over 700 full-text industry reports
  • Over 700 US industry risk rating reports
  • Information on over 8000 Publicly Traded Companies
  • Hundreds of economic and demographic profiles

For additional database choices, see:

  1. Database Descriptions
  2. Database Comparison Chart

Selected U.S./World Industry Data & Company Sites

U. S. Data

LexisNexis Academic Universe

  • Choose Business >> Industries >> Medical and Health

U.S. Bureau of the Census

  • Begin with NAICS 6

Department of Health and Human Services (resource locator)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

National Center for Health Statistics

Rand Corporation

  • Health Policy research

World Data

World Health Organization

Source OECD

  • Choose Statistics tab. Search for "health" in title. Click "go"
  • Data viewable by download or interactive database

Resources for Identifying Companies in the Industry

Hoover’s Online

  • Proprietary company overviews
  • Industry breakdowns and explanations
  • Competitor listings
  • Financial synopses

Lexis/Nexis Corporate Affiliations
Business Library, Reference: HG4057.A219

  • U.S. corporate directory
  • Holding company directory

Mergent Online

  • Information on 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. Public companies
  • Detailed, standardized financial statements
  • Searchable by company name, industry codes, revenue levels, and other characteristics
  • Comparative analysis among companies
  • Access to SEC reports

Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
Business Library, Reference: HG4057.A56

  • Listings organized by NAICS code
  • Ranks public and private companies by revenues/sales

Library Collections: Selected Reference Titles & Call Number Ranges

Selected Reference Titles

For additional materials, contact the Schreyer Business Library.

AHA guide to the health care field
Life Sciences Library, Reference: RA977.A1A46
Includes information on health care networks and alliances, geographic listings and individual hospital statistics.

Encyclopedia of global industries
Business Library, Reference: HC102.E333
Includes chapter on Medical Equipment and Services

Quality management in healthcare: principles & methods
4th floor Paterno: RA399.A1L54

Strategic management of health care organizations
4th floor Paterno: RA971.S924

American Hospital Association hospital statistics
Life Sciences Reference Desk: RA981.A2A6234
(previous editions: 4th floor Paterno stacks)

Testing for ownership mix efficiency : the case of the nursing home industry
3rd floor Paterno: HB141.N2 no. 11115

Selected periodicals: 4th Floor Paterno

Healthcare Financial Management get-it button for requested title   Journal of Health Care Finance
RA410.A1T59
get-it button for requested title
Health Care Manager get-it button for requested title   Managed Care Business Week get-it button for requested title
Health Care Strategic Management
RA1.H4
get-it button for requested title   Marketing Health Services
RA410.A1J86
get-it button for requested title
Healthcare Executive
RA971.H45
get-it button for requested title   Medical Economics
RA410.A1M3
get-it button for requested title
Healthcare Informatics get-it button for requested title   Modern Healthcare
RA421.M78101
get-it button for requested title
Hospital Material$ Management get-it button for requested title   Research in Healthcare Financial Management get-it button for requested title
Hospitals & Health Networks
RA960.H6
get-it button for requested title

Search the CAT

SAMPLE subjects (To narrow fields, add geographic terms or other limiting terms. Combine terms such as "Long term care" and "Financing".)

Aged - medical care - economic aspect
HFMA Health care financial management series
Health facilities - administration
Health facilities - business management
Health Maintenance Organizations - administration
Health (or hospital or physician) management companies
Health Care AND vocational guidance (or careers)
Health services administration
Hospitals - administration
Hospital - business management
Hospitals diagnostic services
Hospitals - finance
Hospital mergers
Long term care
Medical care
Medical economics
Medical instruments and apparatus industry
Medical technology
Nursing homes
Nursing homes - economic aspects

Call # Ranges

4th Floor Paterno:

R855-859.7 Medical technology, electronics, instrumentation, informatics
RA410 Medical economics
RA645 Home health care and emergency medical services
RA 960-1000 Medical centers, hospitals, long term care facilities, etc.

Related Penn State Links:

Career Information: Selected Sources for Employment Information

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce

Health Promotion Career Network

Vault Online Career Library (Currently, Vault Guides are facing problems opening in Adobe Reader 8.x. Please see here for using FREE Adobe Digital Editions to access these guides)

  1. Vault provides full-text career and industry guides
  2. Includes company profiles, occupation descriptions, and career-related articles

Career Guide to Industries (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Business Library, Reference: HF5382.5.U5 C3162

Occupational Outlook Handbook  (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
CAT record for print copies
Business Library, Reference: HD8051.A623

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