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There has been much speculation about Amazon & JP Morgan & Berkshire Hathaway healthcare joint venture. Recently, the newly appointed CEO of the effort, Atul Gawande, announced he was embarking on a “listening tour” of the 1.2 million employees who work under…

Almost 10 Pie Charts in 10 Python Libraries

Here is a follow-up to our “10 Heatmaps 10 Libraries” post. For those of you who…

This post is part of a series on Social Determinants of Health

Food Access is loosely defined as “people’s ability to find and afford food”. However, there are a number of related concepts and terms depending on the mode of study being employed. A recent Tufts…

This post is part of a series of in depth posts about specific modules in our Social Determinant Platform

In many cases, patients put off or delay seeking care when they are not sure how they can pay for it. According to Commonwealth Fund surveys…

This post is part of a series on Social Determinants of Health

“Neighborhood stress” or neighborhood socioeconomic context, has long been a focus of public health research. The following summarizes the unique opportunities neighborhoods provide when…

Non-clinical factors including social determinants of health (SDOH) are responsible for, depending on the source, 20%, 60%, 70%, 80% of a persons overall health. (for more on the weighting debate see Different Perspectives on Assigning Weights to Determinants of…

Primed: Spurring Innovation in Medicaid

Medicaid, the federally financed but state-run insurance program for the poor, now covers…

I recently watched Jake VanderPlas’ amazing PyCon2017 talk on the landscape of Python Data Visualization. That presentation inspired this post. In programming, we often see the same ‘Hello World’ or Fibonacci style program implemented in multiple programming languages…