The New England Journal of Medicine has published an analysis of the type and volume of work a typical primary care physician does in a day. Similar to a lot of their specialist counterparts, primary care physicians spend a lot of time on activities that are not reimbursed, given that most insurers only cover office [...]

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Here’s an impressing interactive visualization about the cost of chronic disease management by GE obtained from combining data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey with 500,000 medical records in GE’s database. Click on the picture to go to the site.

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Google search auto-complete is a very useful feature where after typing a few words into the search bar a menu of suggestions based on other users’ queries appears. It has become an interesting way of seeing trends about search topics. A simple visualization tool called Web Seer can compare Google auto-complete suggestions for two search [...]

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