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A day in the life of “Death by a Thousand Clicks”
Physicians’ complaints about inefficient electronic medical records are borne out by data, which show thousands of clicks per day in healthcare software.
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Browse articles, white papers, webinars, replays, and resources on a variety of topics, like population health, healthcare analytics, value-based care, and research data.
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Utilization density plot: Cost and utilization of 50k ACO patients
50,000 patients show individual pathologies and community trends. Here, we see how three different cohorts’ yearly visits translate to healthcare costs.
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Confounding correlations: Enlightenment and noise in the age of so much data
In an age of expanding data and increasingly powerful tools to process and visualize it, it’s increasingly difficult to filter out the noise and find meaning in a sea of numbers. With this piece, Arcadia vice president of product development Nick Stepro has fun with this concept by running over 1,000 combinations of metrics.
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Medicare ACO performance
An updated visualization of Medicare ACO Performance compares risk, enrollment size, cost, and savings for 392 ACOs using a 2017 CMS data set.
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What does quality mean in healthcare? From measures to metrics
The word “quality” gets thrown around a lot in discussions of healthcare. Politicians opine about delivering Americans “higher quality” health care at a lower cost. Insurance companies and healthcare networks advertise their high-quality care in advertisements to patients. Data analytics vendors will wax poetic about quality for hours.
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War of attribution: Patient addresses relative to attributed PCP
Near, far, wherever you are, you’ll need primary care health services. In an urban metropolis, 38,000 patients are mapped geographically around providers.
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Emergency department usage: Travel paths and frequent flyers
In a year, one patient visited an Emergency Department 296 times. How can healthcare networks better serve pain-ridden ED “frequent flyers”?
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A closer look at the evolution of diabetes
EHR and claims data for 10 million patients show the evolution of diabetes, a glimpse at the most at-risk individuals and a way to prevent disease.
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End of life procedures: The most frequent services in the final 12 weeks
Looking at the top 32 most provided services, Arcadia visualizes common costs of end-of-life care, from x-rays to CT scans.
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Hospital variation: Size, cost, outcomes, and experience as reported by CMS
In the interplay of cost, value, and outcomes, CMS data allows us to identify how the country’s largest hospitals balance between efficiency and care.
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Medicare ACO performance: Risk, enrollment size, cost and savings for 372 ACOs
A data visualization of Medicare ACO Performance compares risk, enrollment size, cost, and savings for 372 ACOs using a 2014 CMS data set.
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Prescription drug movements: 5 years of popularity and cost shifts
Follow the price and popularity of several drugs, from Xeljanz to insulin, as they become mainstays (or lose traction) in the healthcare marketplace.