I have just realized that I had missed a very comprehensive analysis of the DocGraph RX dataset by Janos Hajagos. He looked at providers in Hawaii to limit the scope. You can see his full sized chart here. You can look at his sourcecode here. Highlights from the post: The second core aspect of the …
Obviously, we here at DocGraph want to see more and more doctor data released. So we should admit that bias to start. We also care about what other people think, so we were very excited to see the release of the comments regarding the change of policy regarding the release of doctor-identified patient-blinded claims data. …
Found out from Rachel Feltman at Quartz that IMS Institutie for Health Informatics has released a very comprehensive report titled “Engaging Patients on Social Media“. Here is the link to their Press Release on the same. (Apparently IMS is not “into” human readable and/or stable urls.) The simplified title belies the complexity of the release here, which …
IMS Informatics releases Wikipedia/Social Media Correlations Read More »
The NPPES database is the central repository of data about doctors and hospitals in the United States. It is the core of the DocGraph dataset, forming the node data, which we add various edges to. The database has been a mess for years. Lots of non-compliant data. For those who have not been paying attention, …
We are happy to announce the start of two new crowdfunds – DocGraphRX and the DocGraph Open Food Database. DocGraphRX is a dataset showing provider prescribing patterns and the FoodDb is an open food croudsourced dataset. Follow the links to help support open data!!
In this article, Weald explores typical treatment paths revealed in the DocGraph data. An excerpt of his work is below: Provider Type Seen First Provider Type Seen Second Number of Patients Radiology – Diagnostic Radiology Internal Medicine – General 115,602,860 Internal Medicine – General Radiology – Diagnostic Radiology 91,632,055 Internal Medicine – Cardiovascular Disease Internal …
On June 6th, Fred and Ashish met Jan Odegard, Ph.D., Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology Rice University (unpictured)
Here’s the oft requested LinkedIn Group. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/DocGraph-5106909
Using the DocGraph Data set as a base, data scientist David Fauth has created an open source project to use web ranking algorithms on healthcare providers. Follow Fauth’s Project on GitHub here.
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