Archives For Healthcare Data

Venture+ Forum – Final Pitch Competition

abbywellskd —  March 2, 2016 — Leave a comment

Venture+ Forum will be taking place at this year’s #HIMSS16 conference.  Today, four finalists (Bright.md, Flow Health, Sansoro Health, and VUCA Health) selected by the Venture+ Forum, will be presenting their healthtech solutions at the final pitch competition.  

At the conference, one of the main topics of discussion and concern has been around patient engagement and improving one’s personal healthcare experience.  All four of these companies, although very different in their solutions, touch upon improving the patient experience in some way.

Bright.md has a goal to increase the provider panel size by 30%.  Instead of wasting a physician’s time and money, it focuses on getting patients appointments that wouldn’t be filled otherwise.  It focuses on the patient by lowering the costs and time it takes to be seen. The solution has a positive impact on the practice, but makes sure to tune into the patient’s needs as well. Continue Reading…

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5 Questions Causing Buzz at #HIMSS16

abbywellskd —  February 29, 2016 — Leave a comment

This week, over 400,000 people ranging from different backgrounds will come together to attend an event that has an impact on all of our lives.  This event is the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference of 2016 or in twitter lingo, #HIMSS16

You might be thinking, why does this effect me? No, it’s not because quarterback Peyton Manning will be attending as a keynote.  It’s because HIMSS16 revolves around leveraging IT to better healthcare.  Everyone has experienced a bump in the road or negative experience when it comes to healthcare.  We are all looking for that next big thing to improve these issues.  Having a week of keynotes, panels, meet-ups, showcases, etc. that are dedicated to healthcare innovation, is the perfect place to start conversations about these problems and brainstorm how to go about solving them.  

5 questions causing buzz at HIMSS16:

1.) How can we leverage IT to better healthcare?

This is the overarching question of the whole conference.  Whether you are an attendee that is a physician, data scientist, or representing a vendor, you are attending to better healthcare in some way.  Our team is always looking to use data in different ways to assist in healthcare decisions.  We are optimistic that more data will become open and available to consume. Continue Reading…

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Identify Top Clinical Investigators

abbywellskd —  January 27, 2016 — Leave a comment

If you are involved in the study start up process, you know how important it is to have the best investigators.  Having the best investigators allows you to be successful in enrolling patients.  Many have their own investigator database, but when there is difficulty, they usually resort to PubMed, registries, and other data.  This data is difficult to navigate and becomes a time suck.

Indicate Investigators has all the data available, but organizes it in a way that is easy to navigate and will save you time.

Below is the launch page to search by Drug/Drug Class OR Disease.  We curate all publicly available sources that have data on investigators, mining the data from its native html, text or XML, and loading into structured, linked data on each Investigator. We know what trials they participated in, how many trials, and how frequently they work within specific disease indications.

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Once you decide what to search for, you will be directed to the results page of all investigators involved in that indication. Continue Reading…

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#datashows Carotid Artery Stenting by City

abbywellskd —  November 4, 2015 — Leave a comment

This datacard uses Medicare Part B data to identify top physicians or locales for specific outpatient procedures.
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Purpose: clinical operations, market research

Entities: physicians, outpatient procedures

For more information on karmadata or Medicare Part B data, be sure to sign up for a weekly webinar: http://www.karmadata.com/training or reach out directly to contact@karmadata.com

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#datashows Institutions Receiving Grants for Lung Cancer Research

abbywellskd —  July 6, 2015 — Leave a comment

This datacard uses the NIH Grant RePORTER data to identify leading research institutions, particularly pre-clinical.

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Purpose: clinical operations, market research

Entities: organizations, investigators, diseases, drugs

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#datashows Leading Physicians by GSK Research Payments

abbywellskd —  July 2, 2015 — Leave a comment

This card uses the Sunshine Act Data [Pharma Payments to US Physicians] to identify top researchers with strong ties to pharma.

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Entities: Sponsors and Physicians

Purpose: clinical operations, competitive intelligence

 

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Indicate Investigators Enhancement: Search by Drug Class

abbywellskd —  July 24, 2014 — 1 Comment

Indicate Investigators is an app in the karmadata gallery that was created to search a “disease of interest” and return a list of top Investigators within that disease.  Now we have added the option of not only searching by disease but being able to search by drug class.

Drug Class-MonoWhen you open the Indicate Investigator app, right away you are able to pick either Drug Class or Disease.  For example, if you wanted to search for Monoclonal Antibodies (which is popular in treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases), you would pick drug class and then start typing it in as it autocompletes.  You are also still able to toggle back and forth between drug class and disease once you are fully in the app.

 

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Sponsor Finder Enhancement: Trial Timeline

abbywellskd —  July 15, 2014 — Leave a comment

At the karmadata HQ the developers have been working diligently to create more filters to expand the abilities that Sponsor Finder has.  There have been multiple additions already and we want to share them with you.  The first addition that has been made is the visualizations of trial timelines.  This gives the user the ability to quickly see a comparison between the actual vs. expected for a trial as well as different events that have occured.

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After running a Sponsor Finder search, you will be able to find these visualizations by clicking on the number of trials in the middle of the green circle.  This will bring you to the list of clinical trials page.  Right away you are able to see the trial timelines right under it’s trial listing.

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Some of the events that you would be able to see on the timeline include: original/actual start and end dates, addition of trial sites, when a trial is announced, and enrollment dates.  The blue line is the current timeline and grey is the original timeline.  This will give our clients the ability to easily see trial delays/events instead of having to dig into the source.  In the end, saves you and your team time-which is what Sponsor Finder aims to do!  More updates on Sponsor Finder additions to follow.

In #showMeData™, App, Clinical trials, Data Visualization, Healthcare Data, Open data, Uncategorized
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California leads the way with roughly 8k EHR Meaningful Use Installs

California leads the way with roughly 8k EHR Meaningful Use Installs

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New Data Sets Are “Hot” @NPR Interviews @karmadata on @myhealthio

abbywellskd —  June 20, 2014 — Leave a comment
On Monday, June 16th we were all ears when it came to NPR’s Morning Edition.  NPR’s Eric Whitney interviewed and featured karmadata on the segment Power to the Health Data Geeks, after karmadata won an award for myHealth.io at the 2014 Health Datapalooza.  We were very excited about this feature, almost as excited as when a new data set is released.

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Listen to full interview here:

[audio http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/06/20140616_me_power_to_the_health_data_geeks.mp3 ]

 

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