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Booking ahead: The early bird will be seen now
A calendar-view of appointments at a 25-physician provider group reveals that the majority are booked at the end of the year, at least a month in advance.
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The health IT space: Visualizing data structures of the leading EHRs
There’s no uniform structure for EHRs across the health IT space, data shows. Those that are interconnected show the most potential for robust analysis.
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Medicare ACO performance: Risk, enrollment size, cost and savings for 392 ACOs
A year’s worth of data from 392 Accountable Care Organizations show that precise risk-scoring is a predictor and indicator of financial success.
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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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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...
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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...
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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.