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Adequate hospice care reduces end-of-life costs and utilization
This is a visual examination how adequate hospice care gives patients and their families the dignity they deserve and reduces utilization and medical costs.
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Healthcare data visualizations
At Arcadia, we believe in the power of data visualization to unlock insights into healthcare. Much of the team’s work has been driven by multiple clinical and claims datasets — we welcome your questions and ideas.
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How single provider experiences give patients better health outcomes
This is a visual examination of how a single relationship between a patient and provider improves risk closure across the board and leads to better outcomes.
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More than a social problem: How housing insecurity leads to higher prevalence of chronic illness
Visualizing the link between housing insecurity and chronic illness, we see higher instances of heart failure, hypertension, and other conditions.
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A long COVID road travelled
In a longitudinal study of data from Arcadia, researchers tracked the outcomes of symptomatic and asymptomatic long-COVID patients.
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A year for recovery: COVID-19’s impact on service lines
As the pandemic raged, other essential medical services bore the brunt, and data points to an impact in imaging services, testing, and elsewhere.
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This is what the flu looks like: Visualizing the 2017-2018 influenza season in Massachusetts
Arcadia charts a flu outbreak in Massachusetts from November through April, with a pronounced February peak.
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A lifetime of healthcare: The costs of 85 years of life
Follow the changing healthcare costs through the life of a patient from childhood (ages 6-12) to old age (70-85).
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The aging human body: Managing our changing health needs
A breakdown of spending in healthcare categories over time, from birth to death, in the life of a patient, from ASD to macular degeneration.
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A population under a microscope
Finding the demographic factors (including social determinants of health) that indicate potential for complex care management.
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Joint replacement episode of care: Costs, pathways, and complications
A map of joint replacement—the most common inpatient Medicare procedure—and its costs among distinct age groups and clinical outcomes.
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Loyalty after provider attrition: Following providers out of the network
Exploring the bond between patient and doctor, Arcadia looks at loyalty within specialties in the wake of a move out-of-network.
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Opioids, the latest data: The past three years of prescriptions
Three years of data indicates fewer opioid prescriptions (save addiction treatment), a pinch that coincides with an uptick in unprescribed Fentanyl deaths.