Telehealth Infrastructure for Cancer Care in the United States

ZIP Code Tabulation Area-level data integrates broadband coverage, cancer incidence, and travel times to model telehealth accessibility. This dataset supports analysis of digital and spatial divides in cancer care access across the United States. It combines estimated cancer case counts, provider locations, and residential broadband subscription rates for health disparity research.

Use Cases

• Modeling spatial accessibility to cancer care based on estimated drive time from population-weighted centroids.
• Analyzing disparities in telehealth access by correlating broadband subscription rates with cancer incidence rates.
• Mapping geocoded locations of cancer care providers and facilities against broadband availability estimates.
• Assessing digital divides by integrating fixed and wireless broadband coverage data, including 5G, with health outcomes.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Dataverse and Figshare signals importance and reusability.
• Integrates multiple data components (broadband, travel time, cancer incidence, provider locations) into a single spatially-aligned resource.
• Size exceeds 500 MB on two platforms, suggesting a substantial volume of data.

Limitations

• License conflict: Dataverse lists CC0-1.0, while Figshare lists CC-BY-4.0.
• Column names are unknown across all sources, limiting understanding of the data structure.
• Row counts are not provided, obscuring the dataset's granularity.

Provenance

Source

Author: Lingbo Liu (or Liu, Lingbo). Associated with research published in NPJ Digital Medicine, Health & Place, and Scientific Data.

Collection Method

Data likely compiled from public sources and modeled using a multi-constraint Monte Carlo simulation approach for downscaling cancer incidence.

Freshness

2026-05-11 17:52:55

Geography

United States, at the ZIP Code Tabulation Area level.